I'm fighting it off as long as I can.

The fact is I've a sale this afternoon.

I thought if I could last until after that it might not be a bad thing." "How's the biz ?" Burton asked with a touch of his old jauntiness.
"Going strong, eh ?" "Not so good and not so bad," Mr.Waddington admitted.

"We've got over that boom that started at first when people didn't understand things.
They seem to regard me now with a mixture of suspicion and contempt.
All the same, we get a good many outside buyers in, and we've pulled along all right up till now.

It's been the best few months of my life," Mr.Waddington continued, "by a long way, but I'm getting scared, and that's a fact." "How many beans have you left ?" Burton inquired.
"Four," Mr.Waddington replied.