"Never mind, I dare say I shall be able to interest some one in it.

In any case, I never meant Mr.Dowling to make a fortune out of this." They walked on in silence a little further.

Then she spoke again, with some hesitation.
"I suppose that what you have done is quite fair, Leonard ?" He answered her promptly, without any sign of offence at her question.
"As a matter of fact," he confessed, "it is an unusual thing for any one in the employ of a firm of estate agents to make speculations on their own account in land.

In this case, however, I consider that I was justified.

I have opened up three building speculations for the firm, on each one of which they have made a great deal of money, and I have not even had my salary increased, or any recognition whatever offered me.
There is a debt, of course, which an employee owes to his employer.
There is also a debt, however, which the employer owes to his employee.
In my case I have never been treated with the slightest consideration of any sort.