A theatrical audience of scalliwags and thieves will howl applause at the triumph of virtue and the downfall of the villain; and each separate member will go out into the street and begin to practise villainy and say 'to hell with virtue.' If last night's meeting could have polled on the spot, they would have been as one man.

To-day they're scattered and each individual revises his excited opinion.

Your hard-bitten Radical would sooner have a self-made man than an aristocrat to represent him in Parliament; but, damn it all, he'd sooner have an aristocrat than an ex-convict." "But who the devil told you I'm an aristocrat ?" cried Paul.
Wilson laughed.

"Who wants to be told such an obvious thing?
Anyhow, you've only got to look and you'll see how the votes are piling up." Paul looked and saw that Wilson spoke truly.

Then he reflected that Wilson and the others who had worked so strenuously for him had no part in his own personal depression.