I never thought I'd be working for you, Mr.
Baird, and of course I wouldn't have been if you had kept on doing those comedies.

I never would have wanted to work in one of them." "Of course not," agreed Baird cordially.

"I realized that you were a serious artist, and you came in the nick of time, just when I was wanting to be serious myself, to get away from that slap-stick stuff into something better and finer.

You came when I needed you.

And, look here, Merton, I signed you on at forty a week--" "Yes, sir: I was glad to get it." "Well, I'm going to give you more.