'I tell you, Adam, we can't afford now to let men like Gregson spoil good land while the country's likely to go hungry! The old happy-go-lucky days are done with.

I wonder whether even you recognize that we're fighting for our lives ?' 'I know we are, Sir Henry.

But if the war makes slaves of us what good will it do if we do win it ?' Sir Henry laughed.

'Well, Adam, you were always a Radical and I was always a Conservative.

And I don't like being managed any more than you do.