Roadways and engineering work of course I'll have to pay for, and then I can finance a subsidiary operating company to rent the plant from the original company, and can retain stock in both of them.

I'll figure that out both ways." It was all Greek to her, this talk, but she knitted her brows in an earnest effort to understand, and crowded close to him to look over the figures he was putting down.

The touch of her arm against his own threw out his calculations entirely.

He could not add a row of figures to save his life.
"I'll go over the financial end of this later on," he said, but he did not put away the paper.

He kept it there for them both to look at, touching arms.
"All right," she agreed, "but you must let me see you do it.