We have come at a busy time, under pretext of a holiday, some two hundred miles from London to suggest to you, temporarily deprived of political standing, that you join us." "That temporary deprivation," Tallente murmured, "being due to your efforts." "Precisely!" "And the alternative ?" "Those who are not with us are against us," Dartrey declared.

"If you persist in remaining the doubtful factor in politics, it is our business to see that you have no definite status there." Tallente laughed a little cynically.
"Your methods are at least modern," he observed.

"You invite a man to join your party, and if he refuses you threaten him with political extinction." "Why not ?" Dartrey asked wonderingly.

"You do not pause to consider the matter.

Government is meant for the million.