In this matter I will give my instincts free play.

Of New Wanley not one brick shall remain on another.

I will close the mines, and grass shall again grow over them; I will replant the orchards and mark out the fields as they were before.' He paused again.
'You see why I cannot do what you ask.' It was said in a gentler voice, for insensibly his tone had become almost vehement.
He found a strange pleasure in emphasising his opposition to her.
Perhaps he secretly knew that Adela hung upon his words, and in spite of herself was drawn into the current of his enthusiasm.

But he did not look into her face.

Had he done so he would have seen it fixed and pale.
'Then you think grass and trees of more importance than human lives ?' She spoke in a voice which sounded coldly ironical in its attempt to be merely calm.
'I had rather say that I see no value in human lives in a world from which grass and trees have vanished.