But we can't help it.' 'Why can't we ?' His voice grew disagreeable in its effort to be insinuating.

'It seems to me that we can and ought to help it.

It would be quite different if you and I had just been enjoying ourselves and thinking of no one else.' He thought it a skilful stroke to unite their names thus.

'We haven't done anything of the kind; we've denied ourselves all sorts of things just to be able to spend more on New Wanley.

You know what I've always said, that I hold the money in trust for the Union.