They look round for some one to blame for what has happened; they blame the politicians, they blame the leisured classes; in an indirect way I believe they blame the Church.

Certainly, the national disaster has not drawn them towards religion in any form.
One thing you may be sure of, they do not blame themselves.

No true Londoner ever admits that fault lies at his door.

'No, I never!' is an exclamation that is on his lips from earliest childhood, whenever he is charged with anything blameworthy or punishable.

That is why school discipline was ever a thing repugnant to the schoolboard child and its parents; no schoolboard scholar ever deserved punishment.