They don't understand it, but they've just got to take it! Crowded?
Rather!" "We don't say 'rather' in this country, mister," observed Stella.
"Well, you can say it now, kiddie." They laughed at the little passage--the traveller's importation of one or two Britishisms had been the subject of skirmish before--but silence fell among them for a moment afterward.

They all had in the blood the remembrance of what Lorne had seen.
"Well, you've been doing big business," said Horace Williams.
Lorne shook his head.

"We haven't done any harm," he said, "but our scheme's away out of sight now.

At least it ought to be." "Lost in the bigger issue." said Williams, and Lorne nodded.
The bigger issue had indeed in the meantime obscured the political horizon, and was widely spreading.

A mere colonial project might well disappear in it.