"I said that I was getting on all right because I am contented and happy.

That is the chief thing after all, isn't it ?" Mr.Waddington opened his mouth and closed it again.
"I wish I could make out what the devil it was that happened to you," he said.

"Why, you used to be as smart as they make 'em, a regular nipper after business.

I expected you'd be after me for a partnership before long, and I expect I'd have had to give it you.

And then you went clean dotty.