This was going to be expensive, but probably no more expensive than a middle-of-the-night locksmith, so I figured, under the circumstances, I was coming out even.
I thought about calling a locksmith -- at least I had my cellphone, but at midnight, it could take a while for a locksmith to show up, and it was cold.
There is one chapter in which Diderot writes with particular admiration about bakers There are others on the work of farmers, bellmakers, locksmiths, and cloth weavers.