"Yo've no business to go prying into what happened between Boucher and me. He's dead, and I'm sorry. That's enough."
"So it is. Will you take work with me? That's what I came to ask."
Higgins's obstinacy wavered, recovered strength, and stood firm. He would not speak. Mr. Thornton would not ask again. Higgins's eye fell on the children.

'Yo've no business to go prying into what happened between Boucher and me. He's dead, and I'm sorry. That's enough.'
'So it is. Will you take work with me? That's what I came to ask.'
Higgins wavered: and then his eye fell on the children.
