20/59 "He's absolutely sincere; and he means business. He won't stop at the bottom of the ladder now he's once got his foot upon it." "But he's quite common, isn't he ?" he asked again. "I've only met him in public." "No, that's precisely what he isn't," answered Joan. "You feel that he belongs to no class, but his own. The class of the Abraham Lincolns, and the Dantons." "England's a different proposition," he mused. |