"Markets would open if the stuff was not so poor. They managed to hustle your brother out of his rights without getting his secret."
"Is that so?"
"So I am told. I know nothing about the matter myself. I can only repeat what people are saying. By the by, I suppose you have heard that your old home has been sold?"
"Yes."
"St. Goram seems to be quite excited about it. The people in my cousin's shop can talk of nothing else."
"Then you have called on your cousin?"
"Just to say 'How d'ye do?' But Saturday afternoon appears to be a busy day with him. Seems a shame that he has to turn out, doesn't it?"
"It is a shame."
"Of course, in a measure, it's his own fault. He ought not to have opposed Lord St. Goram. A man in business ought not to have any politics, and should keep out of public affairs."
"But suppose he agreed with Lord St. Goram?"