She asked the young American sitting on her right what they were working on for Mr. Farlow.
She wondered if he would think she was prying, but he answered without hesitation,
“I and my friend have been engaged in finding the oil that has been so successful for Mr. Farlow. But he’s never satisfied and now we are looking at other industries to see if they can produce the same return as oil has done.”
“We have a number of new inventions in England like electric light and photography,” suggested Galina.
“That’s true,” he responded, “but I don’t see huge fortunes coming from them at the moment. I think that Mr. Farlow would do better with ships and some of the other larger industries that we are already investigating.”
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