He was trembling with passion.
"This informal meeting is adjourned," he announced harshly.
Cross himself did not move.
"Adjourned or not it may be, Mr.Fenn," he said, "but it's no place of yours to speak for it.

You've thrust yourself into that chair, but that don't make you chairman, now or at any other time." Fenn choked down the words which had seemed to tremble on his lips.

His enemies he knew, but there were others here who might yet be neutral.
"If I have assumed more than I should have done, I am sorry," he said.

"I brought you news which I was in a hurry to deliver.

The rest followed." The little company rose to their feet and moved towards the door, exchanging whispered comments concerning the news which Catherine had brought.