"I can run away and leave my crochet-hook behind."
"You'll find me hooked on whenever you return."
"Well, if you're determined—by hook or by crook! But you're not going to convert me to Socialism?"
"I won't promise."
"You must. I don't mind reading Plato."
"He's worse. He isn't a Christian at all."
"I don't mind that. He's B.C. He couldn't help it. But you Socialists came after Christ."
"How do you know Socialism isn't a return to Him?"
"Is it?"
"Aha! You are getting interested.... But I hear my mother coming down to dinner. To be continued in our next. À demain, is it not?"