5/38 As yet I've only been able to hit on a few general ideas; I'm clear as to the objects I shall keep before me, but how best to serve them wants more reflection. I thought if I talked it over with you in the first place--' The door opened, and a lady half entered the room. 'Forgive me!' 'Come in! Here's our friend Mutimer. You know Mrs.Westlake ?' A few words had passed between this lady and Richard in the lecture-room a few weeks before. She was not frequently present at such meetings, but had chanced, on the occasion referred to, to hear Mutimer deliver an harangue. |