You would have been better back upon your stool in my office." "It is too late," Burton declared, a little doggedly.

"I came to ask you if you wanted to join?
For two more beans they would make you, too, a director, and give you five thousand shares." Mr.Waddington shook his head.
"Thank you, Burton," he said, "I would sooner retain my beans.

I have no interest in your enterprise.

I think it hateful and abominable.

I cannot conceive," he went on, "how you, Burton, in your sane mind, could have stooped so low as to associate yourself in any way with the thing." "You don't know what my temptations were!" Burton groaned.
"And therefore," Mr.Waddington replied, "I will not judge you.