His lip twitched, but he kept his gravity.
"You would be much better employed in forming a branch of the Agricultural Union," he said decidedly.

"What is the good of playing Lady Bountiful to a decayed industry?
All that is childish; we want _the means of revolution_.

The people who are for reform shouldn't waste money and time on fads." "I understand all that," she said scornfully, her quick breath rising and falling.

"Perhaps you don't know that I was a member of the Venturist Society in London?
What you say doesn't sound very new to me!" His seriousness disappeared in laughter.

He hastily put down his cup and, stepping over to her, held out his hand.
"You a Venturist?
So am I.Joy! Won't you shake hands with me, as comrades should?
We are a very mixed set of people, you know, and between ourselves I don't know that we are coming to much.