After all, her secret attitude towards the new enterprise was unchanged. Arguments, facts, figures, persuasions, brutalities had been equally and totally ineffective. And Edwin thought:
"She is the bitterest enemy I have."
Said Ingpen:
"I like that girl up there on the top of that machine. And doesn't she just know where she is! What a movement of the arms, eh?"
Edwin nodded, appreciative, and then beckoned to the office boy.
"What is it?"
"Please, Sir, Mrs. 'Amps in the office to see you."
"All right," he bawled, casually. But in reality he was taken aback. "It's Auntie Hamps now!" he said to the other two. "We shall soon have all Bursley here this afternoon."
Hilda raised her eyebrows.
"D'you know 'Auntie Hamps'?" she grimly asked Ingpen. Her voice, though she scarcely raised it, was plainer than the men's when they shouted. As Ingpen shook his head, she added: "You ought to."