“You’ve guessed it. Soon you’re likely to meet my friend Keeban again—under circumstances which I confess I can’t completely foresee; yet whatever they are, it can’t be anything but a help to better understand his point of view.
“Now here we are or were, Steve—my brother and I. I walked into the bean business, with its logic, such as it is. What is the end and aim of Fanneal and Company, Steve?”
“Why,” I said, “why to——”
“To what?”
“To sell good food.”
“Why?”
“Why, for people to eat?”
“Your effort is to increase the consumption of food, isn’t it?”
“Of course.”
“You do it for profit, don’t you?”