Paternal government and charity were very well in their way--democratic self-government will manage to do without them!" She flung him a gay, quivering, defiant look.

It delighted her to pit these wide and threatening generalisations against the Maxwell power--to show the heir of it that she at least--father or no father--was no hereditary subject of his, and bound to no blind admiration of the Maxwell methods and position.
Aldous Raeburn took her onslaught very calmly, smiling frankly back at her indeed all the time.

Miss Boyce's opinions could hardly matter to him intellectually, whatever charm and stimulus he might find in her talk.

This subject of the duties, rights, and prospects of his class went, as it happened, very deep with him--too deep for chance discussion.

What she said, if he ever stopped to think of it in itself, seemed to him a compound of elements derived partly from her personal history, partly from the random opinions that young people of a generous type pick up from newspapers and magazines.