"Why ain't this just about yours and mine?
After all, it may be Lamb's money that's paid for the stuff we've used, but it hasn't cost much." "But he pays US," Adams remonstrated, horrified by his companion's idea.
"He paid us to do it.

It belongs absolutely to him." "Oh, I know he THINKS it does," Campbell admitted, plaintively.

"I suppose we've got to let him take it.

It's not patentable, and he'll have to do pretty well by us when he starts his factory, because he's got to depend on us to run the making of the stuff so that the workmen can't get onto the process.

You better ask him the same salary I do, and mine's going to be high." But the high salary, thus pleasantly imagined, was never paid.