As the Company did not dare to rest in this way, terrified at the ruinous inaction, they were meditating a middle course, perhaps a strike, from which the miners would come out crushed and worse paid.
Comme elle n'osait chômer aussi, effrayée devant l'inaction ruineuse du matériel, elle revait un moyen terme, peut-etre une greve, d'ou son peuple de mineurs sortirait dompté et moins payé.