Sit down, Mr. Austen, I am glad to make your acquaintance.
Is it true that you have a certain mixture that has-er-quite extraordinary effects?
My dear sir,my stock in trade is not very large...I think nothing I sell has effects which could be precisely described asordinary.
I want nothing of that sort
Do you mean it is a poison?
Call it a glove-cleaner if you like, maybe it will clean gloves. I have never tried.One might call it a life-cleaner. Lives need cleaning sometimes.
Here, for example, is a liquid as colorlessas water, almost tasteless, quite imperceptible in coffee, wine, or any other beverage. It is also quiteimperceptible to any known method of autopsy.
I hope all your mixtures are not as expensive
Oh dear, no. It would be no good charging that sort of price for a love potion, for example.Young people who need a love potion very seldom have five thousand dollars. Otherwise they would not need alove potion.
Do you know the price of this? For one teaspoonful, which issufficient, I ask five thousand dollars... Not a penny less.
And how much, is this wonderful mixture?
So, you really do sell love potions?
Yes, she will want to be everything to you.
Just a dollar.
Thank you again, Good-bye.
I can't tell you how grateful I am
I like to oblige. Then customers come back, later in life, when they are better off, and wantmore expensive things.