You see the result." Mr.Bomford sat quite still and breathed several times before he spoke.
It was a sign with him of most intense emotion.
"Mr.Burton," he declared, "if this is true, that child is even a greater testimony to the efficacy of your--your beans, than you yourself." "There is no doubt," Burton agreed, "that the change is even greater." There was a knock at the door.

Burton, with a word of excuse, crossed the room to open it.

The postman stood there with a packet.

It was his novel returned once more.

He threw it on to a table in the corner and returned to his place.
"Mr.Burton," his visitor continued, "for the first time in my life--and I may say that I have been accustomed to public speaking and am considered to have a fair choice of words--for the first time in my life I confess that I find myself in trouble as to exactly how to express myself.