When the meal was over, he glanced at him with a smile through the cigar smoke.
"I think it would do you good to take me into your confidence," he said.
"Well," said Alfreton, "it would be a relief to talk, and I feel I could trust you.

Still, it's only fair to tell you I didn't at the beginning.

I was an opinionated ass, you see." Winston laughed.

"I don't mind in the least, and we have most of us felt that way." "Well," said the lad, "I was a little short of funds, and proud of myself, and when everybody seemed certain that wheat was going down forever, I thought I saw my chance of making a little.

Now I've more wheat than I care to think of to deliver, the market's against me.