obedience—industry.”
“You teach them very little?”
“Why should we? It only leads to trouble and discontent. We amuse them.
Even as it is—there are troubles—agitations. Where the labourers get the ideas,
one cannot tell. They tell one another. There are socialistic dreams—anarchy even! Agitators will get to work among them. I take it—I have always taken it—
that my foremost duty is to fight against popular discontent. Why should people
be made unhappy?”
“I wonder,” said Graham thoughtfully. “But there are a great many things I want to know.”
Lincoln, who had stood watching Graham’s face throughout the conversation,
intervened. “There are others,” he said in an undertone.
The Surveyor-General of schools gesticulated himself away. “Perhaps,” said Lincoln, intercepting a casual glanc
