But that makes no difference to the question at issue.
When your father gets his factory going he will employ twenty men where he now employs one.

They in turn will be able to support wives and families, which will mean employment for storekeepers, school teachers----" "Oh, spare me any more, I beg!" she implored penitently, "and I promise never, never to object to money-making schemes again.

I know you were going to add that the twenty men's wives would want twenty new hats, and so there would be an opening for a first-class millinery establishment at Roaring Water Portage." "I had not thought of that, but of course it is quite true," he said, adding with a laugh: "and there would be an opening for a dressmaker also, don't you see ?" "I don't want to see.

I don't want to hear anything more about it at all.

It is all too much in the future, too practical and commonplace altogether to fit such a twilight as this," she said, with a touch of petulance.