'Does it not, down in your Hollow?'
'Not at all.'
'What more work are you wishing for there?'
'I am thinkingby and byof building another mill.'
'Another mill!'Mr. Falkirk's surprise was evidently more than it was polite to shew.'You have not ground room, have you?'
'Not a present. I hope to be able to secure it. There is room, in the valley.'
'Then you expect your ventures to succeed?'
'Or I should not think of enlarging them.'
'But Charteris and others are underselling you now.'
'Yes.'