They spoke of the Labour Party and its leaderless state.

They had no idea, of course, of the great Council which was already secretly formed, but they were unanimous about the necessity for a strong leader.

Two people made the same remark, almost with apprehension: `If ever Paul Fiske should materialise, the problem would be solved!'" Fenn assented without enthusiasm.
"After all, though," he reminded her, "a clever writer does not always make a great speaker, nor has he always that personality and distinction which is required in this case.

He would come amongst us a stranger, too--a stranger personally, that is to say." "Not in the broadest sense of the word," Catherine objected.

"Paul Fiske is more than an ordinary literary man.