You want to fix your mind on one thing; and that will have to be business as soon as we leave here." "I dare say you're right.

My interest's apt to wander; but if you take advantage of every opportunity that offers, you get most out of life.
Concentration's good; but if you concentrate on a thing and then don't get it, you begin to think what a lot of other things you've missed." "That may be all right," said Harding dubiously; "but we're going to concentrate on business right now.

I have a wife, and I don't forget it.

Marianna--that's Mrs.Harding--is living in a two-room tenement, making her own dresses and cooking on a gasoline stove, so's to give me my chance for finding the gum.

And I'm here in an expensive hotel, where I've made about two dollars' commission in three days.