17/39 We were sitting on garden seats in the dappled shade of enormous elms. One could see the red of their uniforms through moving rifts in the crowd of white dresses. "The man has been reading the papers and he gave me the benefit of his reflections. 'Someone's got to be punished for this;' he said, 'we've got to show them that you can't be hand-and-glove with that sort of blackguard, without paying for it. I don't say, mind you, that Mr.Churchill is or ever has been. |