I want
them to study production and the laws of production from a universal
point of view."
"I can quite understand," she acquiesced sympathetically, "that you have
a difficult class of men to deal with. Tell me what the evening papers
mean by their placards?"
"We had a small tactical success against the Government this afternoon,"
he explained. "It doesn't really amount to anything. We are not ready
for their resignation at the moment, any more than they are ready to
resign."
"You are an object of terror to all my people," she confided smilingly.
"They say that Horlock dare not go to the country and that you could
turn him out to-morrow if you cared to."
"So much for politics," he remarked drily.
"So much for politics," she assented. "And now about yourself?"
"A little finger of flame burning in an empty place," he sighed. "That
is how life seems to me when I take my hand off the plough."
She answered him lightly, but her face softened and her eyes shone with
sympathy.
"Aren't you by way of being just a little sentimental?"
"Perhaps," he admitted.
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