text:  Hired? Well, Mr. Dallow, it makes you think he was hired. So maybe I'm wrong. Am I? I was never quite certain myself. Did Tom think he was? Oh, no, no, no, definitely no. At least as far as Mavis Gale was concerned. Yeah, quite right. Did you share his opinion, Brother Pocket? As I said before, I could never quite make up my mind. Well, why not? Yes.