Even if we had gone under to-day, no one could have stopped your going wherever you chose to go.

Ruin, even if it had been ruin,--and I told you just now that business was better,--is not a crime.

Pull yourself together, for Heaven's sake, man! You should be ashamed to come here and frighten that poor little girl downstairs almost to death." Morrison gripped his partner's arm.
"You must do as I ask," he declared hoarsely.

"It doesn't matter about prices being better.

I want to get away.