"Is the road stopped?
Will it not go beyond Kohara ?" Colonel Dewes attempted no evasion with Mrs.Linforth.
"It is true that it is stopped.

It is also true that for the moment there is no intention to carry it further.

But--but--" And as he paused Sybil took up the sentence.
"But it will go on, I know.

Sooner or later." And there was almost a note of hopelessness in her voice.

"The Power of the Road is beyond the Power of Governments," she added with the air of one quoting a sentence.
They walked on between the alleys of rose-trees and she asked: "Did you notice the book which Dick was reading ?" "It looked like a bound volume of magazines." Sybil nodded her head.
"It was a volume of the 'Fortnightly.' He was reading an article written forty years ago by Andrew Linforth--" and she suddenly cried out, "Oh, how I wish he had never lived.