We've offered the managership to half a dozen.

I won't say they were afraid, for they were not.

But they did not consider it healthy--at least that is the way it was put by the last one who declined our offer.

So Hughie and I did the managing ourselves." "And when he died you were prepared to go on all alone!" Joan cried, with shining eyes.
"I thought I'd muddle through.

And now, Miss Lackland, please be charitable when I seem harsh, and remember that the situation is unparalleled down here.