ination
to duty; with lectures on the fundamental laws, within which all progress
must be accomplished, outside which lay confusion and explosions; with
lectures on history, showing how improvements had been brought about and
how failure had been invited, thus avoiding much waste of reforming zeal;
with lectures on the properties and tendencies of human nature,
forbidding the attempt to treat it as a sum in rule of three?

There were the others. The men and women not in the lime-light. The
lone, scattered men and women who saw no flag but Pity's ragged skirt;
who heard no drum but the world's low cry of pain; who fought with feeble
hands against the wrong around them; who with aching heart and troubled
eyes laboured to make kinder the little space about them. The great army
of the nameless reformers uncheered, unparagraphed, unhonoured. The
unknown sowers of the seed. Would the reapers of the harvest remember
them?

Beyond giving up her visits to the house, she had made no attempt to
avoid meeting Phillips; and at public functions and at mutual friends
they sometimes found themselves near to one another. It surprised her
that she could see him, talk to him, and even be alone with him without
its troubling her. He seemed to belong to a part of her that lay dead
and buried--something belonging to her that she had thrust away with her
own hands: that she knew would never come back to her.

She was still interested in his work and keen to help him. It was going
to be a stiff fight. He himself, in spite of Carleton's opposition, had
been returned with an increased majority; but the Party as a whole had
suffered loss, especially in the counties. The struggle centred round
the agricultural labourer. If he could be won over the Government would
go ahead with Phillips's scheme. Otherwise there was danger of its being
shelved. The difficulty was the old problem of how to get at the men of
the scattered villages, the lonely cottages. The only papers that they
ever saw were those, chiefly of the Carleton group, that the farmers and
the gentry took care should come within their reach; that were handed to
them at the end of their day's work as a kindly gift; given to the school
children to take home with them; supplied in ample numbers to all the
little inns and public-houses. In all these, Phillips was held up as
their arch enemy, his proposal explained as a device to lower their
wages, decrease their chances of emp