"I should not willingly have sought you out.

I do not, as a matter of fact, consider that any director of the British and Imperial Granaries deserves even a word of warning.

But since I am here, I am going to offer it." "Of warning ?" Dredlinton muttered, glancing up nervously.
"Precisely," Wingate assented.

"You, Mr.Phipps, and Lord Dredlinton, and your fellow directors, have inaugurated and are carrying on a business, or enterprise, whichever you choose to call it, founded upon an utterly immoral and brutal basis.

Your operations in the course of a few months have raised to a ridiculous price the staple food of the poorer classes, at a time when distress and suffering are already amongst them.