I thought it would interest her.

Perhaps it would, if I had left her to her own ways." "Why didn't they want them ?" she asked.
"They did, at first," he answered.

"The time-servers and the hypocrites among them.

I made it a condition that they should be teetotallers, and chapel goers, and everything else that I thought good for them.

I thought that I could save their souls by bribing them with cheap rents and share of profits.