[Night and Day by Virginia Woolf]@TWC D-Link bookNight and Day CHAPTER XX 5/24
Have you seen Bingham's address to his constituents? That's a hint of the sort of thing we've got to meet, Miss Datchet." He handed her a great bundle of newspaper cuttings, and, begging her to give him her views upon the yellow leaflet before lunch-time, he turned with alacrity to his different sheets of paper and his different bottles of ink. Mary shut the door, laid the documents upon her table, and sank her head on her hands.
Her brain was curiously empty of any thought.
She listened, as if, perhaps, by listening she would become merged again in the atmosphere of the office.
From the next room came the rapid spasmodic sounds of Mrs.Seal's erratic typewriting; she, doubtless, was already hard at work helping the people of England, as Mr.Clacton put it, to think rightly; "generating and stimulating," those were his words.
She was striking a blow against the enemy, no doubt, who didn't let the grass grow beneath their feet.
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