Why should people interfere with others like that?
It does make your blood boil! Derek and Sheila have been brought up to be in sympathy with the poor and oppressed.

If they had lived in London they would have been even more furious, I expect.

And it's no use my saying to myself 'I don't know the laborer, I don't know his hardships,' because he is really just the country half of what I do know and see, here in London, when I don't hide my eyes.

One talk showed me how desperately they feel; at night, in Sheila's room, when we had gone up, just we four.

Alan began it; they didn't want to, I could see; but he was criticising what some of those Bigwigs had said--the 'Varsity makes boys awfully conceited.