"Not much. They never seem to talk of things that interest me."
"What does interest you?" he asked curiously.
"All the big, vital things that are going on in the world."
"What kind of things, Jane?"
"Well, the problems of labour, of women, of education, of international politics. Scores of things that these people seem unaware of."
"They talk about the war enough."
"No, they merely tell their opinions, their heated antipathies toward the belligerents."
"What did you touch old Brendon up on? I saw him raving at you."
"I said I thought trusts were dangerous and lawless. He got very excited defending them."
"But, Lord, Jane, he's head of heaps of trusts."