Great care would be necessary when deciding what parts were to be gilded because--whilst large masses of gilding are apt to look garish and in bad taste--a lot of fine gold lines are ineffective, especially on a flat surface, where they do not always catch the light.

Process by process he traced the work, and saw it advancing stage by stage until, finally, the large apartment was transformed and glorified.

And then in the midst of the pleasure he experienced in the planning of the work there came the fear that perhaps they would not have it done at all.
The question, what personal advantage would he gain never once occurred to Owen.

He simply wanted to do the work; and he saw so fully occupied with thinking and planning how it was to be done that the question of profit was crowded out.
But although this question of what profit could be made out of the work never occurred to Owen, it would in due course by fully considered by Mr Rushton.

In fact, it was the only thing about the work that Mr Rushton would think of at all: how much money could be made out of it.
This is what is meant by the oft-quoted saying, 'The men work with their hands--the master works with his brains.'.