"I know you think I have no business to be here!"
Winnington paused a moment, then said—
"I was rather astonished to see you here, certainly."
"Because of what we said at Latchford the other day?"
"You didn't say it!"
"But I agreed with it—I agreed with every word of it!"
"Then indeed I am astonished that you should wish to see Sir Wilfrid
Lang's house!" he said, with energy.
"My recollections of it have nothing to do with Sir Wilfrid. I never saw him that I know of."
"All the same, it belongs to him."
"No!—to history—to the nation!"