As before, he meant to send it to those whose names were upon his list.

His first evening would be at the beginning of February.
'I shall try with Ackroyd again,' he said.

'Perhaps the subject this time will seem more attractive to him.' Gilbert looked grave.
'I'm anxious about Ackroyd,' he replied.

'He's had private trouble lately, and I begin to be afraid it's driving him into the wrong road.
He isn't one that can easily be persuaded.

I wish you might succeed in bringing him to the lectures.' Egremont tried to speak hopefully, but in secret he felt that his power over men was not that which draws them from the way of evil and turns them to light.