"Ha! ha! Excellent! I'll ask him that next time I see him. I'll roast him for his presumption. But no doubt he expects old Christopher Sykes would do something handsome. He is rich, is he not? They live in a large house."
"Sykes carries on an extensive concern."
"Therefore he must be wealthy, eh?"

"Ha! ha! Excellent! I'll ask him that next time I see him. But old Christopher Sykes is rich, is he not?"
"Sykes has an extensive business. 