“No, sir. You see, I’m only a shopman. Mr. Treloar, the owner, he thinks of all these things.”

“And will not you be a shop-owner, sometime, if you save and work hard?”

“No, sir. Oh no, sir. I’m only a shopman.”

“Yes; but could you not become a shop-owner? Would you not like to be one?”

“No, sir. I can’t say as I should, sir.”

“What would you like to be?”

“Of all things, sir?”

“Yes.”

“I don’t know, sir. That’s rather a big order, sir.”

“Think.”