“Probably he has gone away.”
“But where?”
“He found out yesterday that you had apprenticed him without his permission to Silas Flack.”
“He found out because I told him so.”
“Very well, he has no taste for shoemaking.”
“Or for any other kind of work.”
“That is not true, Mr. Winter, and you know it. Ben is industrious, but he wants to be consulted about his occupation.”
“Why, isn’t shoemaking a good business?”
“It is—for some, but Ben doesn’t like it. What put it into your mind to select that business for Ben?”
“I thought he would make a good living at it.”