But so far as the business is concerned, what if Mr.Lamb did talk?
That wouldn't amount to much.

It wouldn't affect the business; not to hurt.

And, besides, he isn't even doing that." "No; anyhow not yet, it seems." And Adams sighed again, wistfully.

"But I WOULD give a good deal to know what he thinks!" Before his surrender he had always supposed that if he did such an unthinkable thing as to seize upon the glue process for himself, what he would feel must be an overpowering shame.

But shame is the rarest thing in the world: what he felt was this unremittent curiosity about his old employer's thoughts.