"Yes?"
"I've been following him up as well as I could ever since that day he called on me."
"So you've told me before."
"But a man was in my office this morning who knows him, who lives in Reboth, in fact, and who has watched him closely."
"Well?"
"He says if he keeps on he'll be one of the most remarkable men in the State of Pennsylvania."
"Indeed?"
"That's what he says. At the beginning, the financiers swarmed round him like bees. But he wasn't to be had. He just went his own way. Slow according to American notions, but that's the man. Level-headed as they make 'em, and honest to a fault."
"A man can't be too honest, surely?"
"Well, business is so rushed in these days that a man has no time to look up the commandments before he decides. If he don't seize his chance on the dot it's gone."