I got tremendously applauded, far more than the chief speaker, and after the meeting Wake came up to me with his hot eyes, and wrung my hand.

'You're coming on well, Brand,' he said, and then he introduced me to Mr Ivery.

'Here's a second and a better Smuts,' he said.
Ivery made me walk a bit of the road home with him.

'I am struck by your grip on these difficult problems, Mr Brand,' he told me.

'There is much I can tell you, and you may be of great value to our cause.' He asked me a lot of questions about my past, which I answered with easy mendacity.