Curiously enough, his foremen and people out in Chiswick are all for it.

I was talking to one of them just before I left--'Stands to reason, sir,' he said, 'we don't want to pay more for a loaf than we do now.

But we'll do it, sir, if it means downing them Germans; he said." Lorne's eyebrows half-perceptibly twitched.

"They do 'sir' you a lot over there, don't they ?" he said.

"It was as much as I could do to get at what a fellow of that sort meant, tumbling over the 'sirs' he propped it up with.