human
Sarah,
gpt
You won't see me again to-day unless you send up for me, her mistress announced.
human
Let me have the letters to sign before five. Try and get away early, if you can. The car is going in to Lynton. Perhaps you would like the ride?
gpt
I should enjoy it very much, your ladyship, the girl replied gratefully.
human
There is really very little to do this afternoon.
gpt
You can bring the letters whenever you like, then, Lady Jane told her,
human
You study your people, I see,
gpt
I try, she assented.
human
I try to do what I can in my little community here, very much as you, in a far greater way, try to study the people in your political programme. Of course, she went on,
gpt
Problems, he observed,
human
An election counts for nothing, she declared.
gpt
The merest whim will lead thousands of voters into the wrong polling booth. Besides, nearly all the papers admit that your defeat was owing to a political intrigue. The very men who should have supported you--who had promised to support you, in fact--went against you at the last moment. That was entirely due to Miller, wasn't it?
human
Miller has been my political bête noir for years, he confessed.
gpt
To me he represents the ignominious pacifist, whereas to him I represent the sabre-rattling jingo. I got the best of it while the war was on. To-day it seems to me that he has an undue share of influence in the country.
human
Who are the men who really represent what you and I would understand as Labour?
gpt
That is too difficult a question to answer offhand, he replied.
human
Personally, I have come to the conclusion that Labour is unrepresentable--Labour as a cause. There are too many of the people yet who haven't vision.