He discovered that Andy had not unpacked the rewinding outfit, but since he would not need it until his negative was dry, he made no comment on the subject.
Bill Holmes kept at his heels, helping when he knew what to do, asking a question now and then, but silent for the most part.

Luck felt extremely optimistic about Bill Holmes, but for all that he was depressed by his second failure to produce good film.

A camera-man, he felt in his heart, might be the determining factor for success; but he was too stubborn to admit it openly or even to consider sending for one, even if he could have managed to pay the seventy-five dollars a week salary for the time it would take to produce the Big Picture.

He could easier afford to waste a few hundred feet of negative now, he argued to himself.
"Come on down, and I'll show you what I can about the camera," he said to Bill Holmes.

"The light's too tricky to-day to work by, but I'll give you a few pointers that you'll have to keep in mind when I'm too busy to think about telling you.