— You will hear five speakers talking about business trips.— For each recording

The journey should turn out to be worth it. They’re obviously keen to do business with someone, and I just hope it’ll be us. They seemed to like the samples I showed them, and said they thought our terms were fair. Of course actual details would get discussed later, but I’m hopeful they’ll come on board, and it’s a part of the world where we need customers. We’ll have to see.

Yes, not a bad trip, this time. And of course if we do decide to work together, then I won’t have to come out nearly so often in the future. He seems to have the right background, and attitude, and some great contacts, so I’d be happy to have him as our man there. His office address is in a good part of town, and I think he’d be very likely to build up our customer base.