sold to. Of course I'm anxious to show the great financial improvement
as well as other improvements. That's partly my province and Mr.
Carter's, our committee chairman, besides our regular work.

GIBSON: Mr. Mifflin tells me that you had a sort of general manager for
a while at first.

CARTER: Oh, that was Hill, the head bookkeeper. He left. He was a
traitor to the comrades.

GIBSON: Hill? He knew quite a little about the business. Why did he
leave?

CARTER: Why, that Coles-Hibbard factory went and offered him a big
salary to come over there; more than he thought he could get coöperatin'
with us.

NORA: Hill was always a capitalist at heart. We certainly haven't needed
him!

CARTER: Oh, everybody was glad to get rid of Hill! Better off without
him--better off without him!

GIBSON: I suppose it was really an economy, his going?

NORA [_smiling_]: It resulted in economy.

GIBSON: Have you made many economies?

NORA: Oh, a great many!