"Do you think she can succeed—make the ranch pay eventually?"
"No."
"Do you think the land is worth more than I have offered?"
"I don't know why it should be."
"Then why not advise her to get rid of it?"
"Because," Angus told him, "there are some things I don't understand at all."
"For instance?"
"Well, in the first place the price her father paid was much more than the land was worth at the time."
"Doesn't that make my offer all the fairer?"
"I don't understand how it was paid at all. The land wasn't worth half of it then."