36/42 'You find compensations ?' 'My brother won't hear of such regrets,' she continued with a little embarrassment 'He insists on the good that will be done by the change.' 'From such a proprietor as I should have been to a man of Mr.Mutimer's activity. To be sure, that is one point of view.' Adela blushed. I was speaking of the change without regard to who brings it about. And I was not giving my own opinion; Alfred's is always on the side of the working people; he seems to forget everybody else in his zeal for their interests. And then, the works are going to be quite a new kind of undertaking. |