'You haven't given me time.

If I had been given time I would have ended by being made a peer like some of them.' And he had permitted himself his very first and last gesture in all these days, raising a hard-clenched fist above his head.
The pressman disapproved of that manifestation.

It was not his business to understand it.

Is it ever the business of any pressman to understand anything?
I guess not.

It would lead him too far away from the actualities which are the daily bread of the public mind.