NORA: Then I'm afraid we'll have to get some back from the people we sold to. Of course I'm anxious to show the great financial improvement as well as other improvements. That's partly my province and Mr. Carter's, our committee chairman, besides our regular work.
GIBSON: Mr. Mifflin tells me that you had a sort of general manager for a while at first.
CARTER: Oh, that was Hill, the head bookkeeper. He left. He was a traitor to the comrades.
GIBSON: Hill? He knew quite a little about the business. Why did he leave?
CARTER: Why, that Coles-Hibbard factory went and offered him a big salary to come over there; more than he thought he could get coöperatin' with us.
NORA: Hill was always a capitalist at heart. We certainly haven't needed him!
CARTER: Oh, everybody was glad to get rid of Hill! Better off without him—better off without him!
GIBSON: I suppose it was really an economy, his going?
NORA [smiling]: It resulted in economy.
GIBSON: Have you made many economies?