17/21 "He might begin with that." "I dare say he would if anybody told him. He's just dying to be taken into the public service," Alec said. "He's in dead earnest about it. He thinks this country's a great place because it gives a man the chance of a public career." "Why is it," asked Advena "that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public ?" "Oh, come," said Lorne, "Hesketh has an income of his own. Why should he sweat for his living? |