After a particularly eloquent period he caught a sight of Mary's face among the roses--calm, cool and altogether unmoved--and he stopped almost on the word.
"That's having a woman, in business," he bitterly told himself.

"Might as well talk to the wind.

Never mind ...

It may take a little longer--but in the end...." Judge Cutler made a minute in the director's book that all work on improvements was to stop at once.
"And now," he said, "the next thing is to speed up the manufacture of bearings." "Easily said," Uncle Stanley shortly laughed.
"There must be some way of doing it," persisted the judge, taking the argument on himself again.

"Why did our earnings fall down so low last year ?" "Because I can manufacture bearings, but I can't manufacture men," reported Uncle Stanley.