“I do indeed, all the difference in the world—To me, there is no greater difference, than between an educated man and an uneducated man.”
“And where does it come in?” asked Kirk.
“But wait a bit, now,” said Aaron Sisson. “You take an educated man—take Pender. What's his education for? What does he scheme for?—What does he contrive for? What does he talk for?—”
“For all the purposes of his life,” replied the landlady.
“Ay, an' what's the purpose of his life?” insisted Aaron Sisson.
“The purpose of his life,” repeated the landlady, at a loss. “I should think he knows that best himself.”
“No better than I know it—and you know it,” said Aaron.
“Well,” said the landlady, “if you know, then speak out. What is it?”
“To make more money for the firm—and so make his own chance of a rise better.”
The landlady was baffled for some moments. Then she said: