"I'm sorry. I apologize."
"I don't reckon I can use apologies. I might make a bargain with you."
"I'll be glad to make any reasonable bargain."
"How'd this do? I'll vote my stock and proxies in the Bromfield Punishment Company, Limited, against the whalin', and you vote yore stock and proxies in the Bird Cage Company to return the present board and directorate."
"That's coercion."
"Well, so it is."
"The law—"
"Did you go hire a lawyer for an opinion before you paid Durand to do me up?"
"You've got no right to hold me a prisoner here to help Whitford."
"All right, I won't. I'll finish my business with you and when I'm through, you can go to the annual meetin'—if you feel up to travelin' that far."