"Yes, so you warned me; but what I find instructive is not the speaker but the crowd."
"You have a crowd here."
"A much smaller one."
"So you are for the majorities?"
Max acknowledged the stroke. "Very well," he said; "let us go back."
"No, I only wanted you to notice the crowd. Did they seem interested?"
"They listened."
"That is something, is it not, when she was talking of things that to their minds hardly concerned them?"
"But you say she was not telling the truth."
"She was ignorant, and she exaggerated; but for all they know what she is saying might be gospel."