Dick blushed painfully. “It isn’t anything you think,” he said.
“What is it, then?” Hyman insisted.
“I can’t tell you,” Dick replied desperately and in torture, “but I swear it’s nothing discreditable. I beg you won’t ask me any more.”
Hyman had to pretend to be satisfied with that.
IX
A TACTICAL move in the anti-conscription campaign was the foundation of a club, a place where people with pacific or generally advanced ideas could congregate.
“A club like this would soon be the intellectual centre of London,” said Hyman, ever sanguine.
Dick shrugged his shoulders. He had a wide experience of pacifists.
“If you bring people together,” Hyman went on, “they encourage one another to be bold—strengthen one another’s faith.”