"Until you got a billet at The Big Tun?"
"No!... Bobine said: 'Here's gold, little brother! It's all I have ... don't come for more!... You must find a way out of the mess!'"
"And you did?... How?"
Hogshead Geoffrey hesitated: he sipped his absinthe.
"Oh ... well ... I found a way out."...
"How? I ask you."...
"I tell you I managed all right! And then I got my job at The Big Tun."
"Where you are now?"
"Where I am."
"You paid back your sister?"