Yours may be a permanent affair." Burton hesitated.

Then he threw himself into a chair and buried his face in his hands.
"My time is coming, too!" he confessed mournfully.

"I am in the same position.

Even while you were speaking just now, I felt a strong desire to deceive you, to invent some experience similar to your own." "Are you sure of that ?" Mr.Waddington asked anxiously.
"Quite sure!" Burton groaned.
"Then we are both of us in it, and that's a fact," Mr.Waddington affirmed.
Burton looked up.
"About those beans ?" Mr.Waddington thought for some few moments.
"I shall keep five and give you four," he decided.

"It is treating you very generously.