You to attend to its heart,
and I to its bones and ligaments. I can put you where no
other woman has ever been. I've a hundred new plans this
minute, and a hundred more waiting to be born. So have you.
I tell you it's just a matter of buildings. Of bricks and
stone, and machinery and people to make the machinery go.
Once we get those--and it's only a matter of months--we can
accomplish things I daren't even dream of. What was Haynes-
Cooper fifteen years ago? What was the North American Cloak
and Suit Company? The Peter Johnston Stores, of New York?
Wells-Kayser? Nothing. They didn't exist. And this year
Haynes-Cooper is declaring a twenty-five per cent dividend.
Do you get what that means? But of course you do. That's
the wonder of it. I never need explain things to you.
You've a genius for understanding."
Fanny had been sitting back in her chair, crouching almost,
her eyes fixed upon the man's face, so terrible in its
earnestness and indomitable strength. When he stopped
talking now, and stood looking down at her, she rose,
too, her eyes still on his face.
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