GIBSON: Only a word from my housemaid.
MIFFLIN [delightedly, pinning him]: Aha! There! What did she say?
"Only a word"; but what was IT?
GIBSON: It indicated—prosperity.
MIFFLIN: Ah! Immense prosperity, didn't it?
GIBSON: I suppose so. Success, at any rate.
MIFFLIN: Success? It's so magnificent that now it's inevitable for every factory of every kind all over this country.
GIBSON: All over the country?
MIFFLIN: Not only all over this country! The world must do it. Ah, they've done it in a country larger than this already! And these comrades right here are showing our country what it means. I don't begrudge you some credit for having begun it, Mr. Gibson. But you only anticipated what all owners everywhere are going to have to do before the workmen simply take the factories. They're going to take them because they have the inherent right; and they're going to take them now, either by direct action or by the technical owners, like yourself, seeing the handwriting on the wall.
GIBSON: What do you mean by direct action?
MIFFLIN: Why, just taking them!