Your master, Poole, is plainly seized with one of those maladies that both torture and deform the sufferer; hence, for aught I know, the alteration of his voice; hence the mask and his avoidance of his friends; […]

Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities.

Troglodytism does not necessarily imply a low cultural level. The picture of the caveman dragging his mate by her hair is a cartoonist's cliché, betraying nostalgia for bygone days, rather than a portrait of the kind of people who prefer to live below ground.

For criticism of the decision see R. Bacchus, The Development of the Law of Wrongful Dismissal in the Commonwealth Caribbean [1991] 1 Carib. L.R. 13.