It happens very luckily that you are a practical engineer.

I suppose the mechanical details of the undertaking are entirely within your province.' 'Not quite, at present,' Mutimer admitted, 'but I shall have valuable help.

Yesterday I had a meeting with a man named Rodman, a mining engineer, who has been working on the estate.

He seems just the man I shall want; a Socialist already, and delighted to join in the plans I just hinted to him.' 'Capital! Do you propose, then, that we shall call a special meeting of the Committee?
Or would you prefer to suggest a committee of your own ?' 'No, I think our own committee will do very well, at all events for the present.

The first thing, of course, is to get the financial details of our scheme put into shape.