“Do the people like the new way?”
“It’s like a weight lifted off their shoulders! They’re beginning to breathe again.”
He lowered his voice.
“I’m in a Soviet office. But like most Jews I believe in trade, barter, property. All the same, the Revolution did some good. The workers didn’t get free seats at the Opera in the time of the Romanoffs.”
He looked at them with shifty eyes, afraid that he was talking dangerously, yet wanting to talk.
“Bread and circuses are all right,” said Christy, “but circuses without bread are poor fare.”
The young Jew couldn’t follow this allusion, and looked mystified.
“Was the Revolution very terrible in England?” he asked.
“What Revolution?”
“The English Revolution.”