But Sir Robin was of those who held that the alien should have equal rights with her English sister, and that it was possible to teach her to stand on her feet like one of the free-born.

He was not chary of his denunciations of certain methods among the Trade Unions and the Trade Unionists, and therefore a crowd sometimes howled him down.

But there was always a minority at least to stand by him, and the minority included the industrious and sober, the honest and thinking, among those he desired to help.
By-and-by he fell into a quiet friendliness with Mary Gray.

He used to take charge of the ladies when they went into the East End.

Lady Agatha used to say that he was a drag on the wheel, because he would not let her do imprudent things, because he would veto it when a question of their going into dangerous streets or houses or rooms, because he insisted on their leaving by a side door a meeting which was becoming turbulent, because he was always forbidding some extravagance or other of her Ladyship's.
"There is one thing about that young man," said Mrs.Morres, who was chary of praise of her Ladyship's party: "he has excellent common-sense, and I thank Heaven for it." "Ah, yes; he has excellent common-sense," Lady Agatha echoed, with a ruefulness which made Mary laugh suddenly.
"You ought to marry him, my dear," Mrs.Morres went on, looping another stitch of the endless crochet.
"Marry Bob Drummond!" Lady Agatha repeated.