“So you really wish to buy the house, Mr. Horn?” he asked.
“Such is my desire.”
“And you think you can pay the price?”
“I have little doubt on that point.”
“Well”—with a sudden jerk forward of his forbidding face—“what do you say to £600?”
Unsophisticated as he was, “Cobbler” Horn felt that the proposal was exorbitant.
“You are surely joking?” he said.
“You think the price too small?”
“I consider it much too large.”
“Well, perhaps I was joking, as you said. What do you think of £500?”