So far as we could discover, the effort produced little or no effect on sales.
The opinion had gone abroad that the water would not keep pure for any great length of time.

By the following spring sales had dwindled to such an extent that it was hardly worth while to continue the business.
Considered as a commercial asset, the Rose-Quartz Spring was dead.
Regretfully we gave up the enterprise and let the spring fall into disuse.

It was then, I remember, that the old Squire said, "It takes us one lifetime to learn how to do things.".