"Please go on, Mr .-- Mr.--" She was terribly afraid he would suddenly remember that she was too young and stop his nice, angry talk.
"Cuthcott.

I'm an editor, but I was brought up on a farm, and know something about it.

You see, we English are grumblers, snobs to the backbone, want to be something better than we are; and education nowadays is all in the direction of despising what is quiet and humdrum.
We never were a stay-at-home lot, like the French.

That's at the back of this business--they may treat it as they like, Radicals or Tories, but if they can't get a fundamental change of opinion into the national mind as to what is a sane and profitable life; if they can't work a revolution in the spirit of our education, they'll do no good.

There'll be lots of talk and tinkering, tariffs and tommy-rot, and, underneath, the land-bred men dying, dying all the time.