"But consider.

Even you allow that Socialism cannot begin to-morrow.

There must be a transition time, and clearly till the State is ready to take over the historical houses and their contents, the present nominal owners of them are bound, if they can, to take care of them.

Otherwise the State will be some day defrauded." She could not be insensible to the charm of his manner towards her.
There was in it, no doubt, the natural force and weight of the man older and better informed than his companion, and amused every now and then by her extravagance.

But even her irritable pride could not take offence.
For the intellectual dissent she felt at bottom was tempered by a moral sympathy of which the gentleness and warmth touched and moved her in spite of herself.