It's the same at a meeting.

You wait ten minutes sometimes before one man will summon up courage to put a question; but once one or two have ventured they spring up all round you.

I was wondering," he added, "if you would help me; let me use you, now and again." "It is what I should love," she answered.

"Tell me what to do." She was not conscious of the low, vibrating tone in which she spoke.
"I want to talk to them," he said, "about their stomachs.

I want them to see the need of concentrating upon the food problem: insisting that it shall be solved.