24/39 A hundred and fifty a year would deliver us from evil." "Would there not still be the diamond dog-collar and the motor car left to tempt us ?" suggested Madge. We should know then which were the sheep and which the goats. At present we're all jumbled together: the ungodly who sin out of mere greed and rapacity, and the just men compelled to sell their birthright of fine instincts for a mess of meat and potatoes." "Yah, socialist," commented Madge, who was busy with the tea things. |