But I rather think that, in the given circumstances, Lady Ogram took the wisest possible step.

We have to look at these questions from the scientific point of view.

Our civilisation is concerned, before all things, with the organisation of a directing power; the supreme problem of science, and at the same time the most urgent practical question of the day, is how to secure initiative to those who are born for rule.
Anything which serves to impress ordinary minds with a sense of social equilibrium to give them an object lesson in the substitution of leadership for anarchy--must be of immense value.

Here was a community falling into wreck, cut loose from the orderly system of things, old duties and obligations forgotten, only hungry rights insisted upon.

It was a picture in little of the multitude given over to itself.