My phrase for it is
"harmonized industry." It will mark an epoch for him.
[GIBSON _comes in._ MIFFLIN _greets him._]
MIFFLIN: Ah, Mr. Gibson! You'll see a difference! You'll see a
difference!
GIBSON: Yes, I do. Good morning, Miss Gorodna!
NORA [_just barely looking round_]: Good morning, Mr. Gibson.
MIFFLIN: I was just saying what an inspiration it's going to be for you
to see what we're doing down here. [_Pats_ CARTER'S _shoulder._] These
noble fellows are teaching us intellectuals a lesson. I keep going among
them; what they're doing here keeps flowing into me. You'll get it, Mr.
Gibson. You'll get it, too!
[_Beamingly he goes out into the factory._]
CARTER [_cordially_]: Take a chair, Mr. Gibson. Make yourself right at
home!
GIBSON: Thanks!
[_He makes a grave tour of inspection of the place, his
expression noncommittal; goes about casually without making a
point of it; he writes his initials in the dust on a filing
case. He turns and looks at_ NORA _thoughtfully; she has not
seemed to notice him._]
Do you think I will, Miss Gorodna?
NORA [_not looking up_]: Do I think you will what?
GIBSON: That I'll get what Mifflin meant? That it will be an inspiration
to me to see this meeting?
NORA: I don't know what will be an inspiration to you.
GIBSON: I know one thing that is--a brave woman!
[_The only sign she gives is that her head bends over her work
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