“Ah, but the personal, magnetic thrill——” (This was in Dickie’s rather deep voice.)

Then Walter, to somebody else, not the miner—

“I should have thought anybody would have known that when I said Saturnalia I meant——”

“Where’s Amory?”

“Sweet, in those little tunics!——”

“A subsidy from the State, of course——”

Then the miner, but not to Walter—

“I’ t’ daylight, proddin’ ’em up wi’ a stick—to say nowt o’ Port Skillian bathin’-place of a fine Sunda’——”

“That hoary old lie, that Socialism means sharing——”