"I should like to think of the name being continued; and he's a good business man, in spite of his dreaminess.

Perhaps he would get on better with the men." She seized at the chance of changing the subject.
"It was a foolish notion," she said, "that of the Manchester school: that men and women could be treated as mere figures in a sum." To her surprise, he agreed with her.

"The feudal system had a fine idea in it," he said, "if it had been honestly carried out.

A master should be the friend, the helper of his men.

They should be one family." She looked at him a little incredulously, remembering the bitter periods of strikes and lock-outs.
"Did you ever try, Dad ?" she asked.
"Oh, yes," he answered.