"At least, I don't say a fortune, but anyhow a great deal more than he does make." "Yes, I've heard that before, mama, and you think he could make it out of a glue factory.

What I'm asking is: How ?" "How?
Why, by making glue and selling it.

Don't you know how bad most glue is when you try to mend anything?
A good glue is one of the rarest things there is; and it would just sell itself, once it got started.
Well, your father knows how to make as good a glue as there is in the world." Alice was not interested.

"What of it?
I suppose probably anybody could make it if they wanted to." "I SAID you didn't know anything about it.

Nobody else could make it.
Your father knows a formula for making it." "What of that ?" "It's a secret formula.