The morning of the next day was spent in still further visits to still more mills. Mr. Brandt was much struck with the direction his guests' attention seemed to take.
"You are very fond of machinery," he remarked to Diana.
"Yes—I don't know much about it," she answered.
"Surely that is not true after these two or three days' work?"
"I knew nothing about it before. Yes, I do enjoy it, Mr. Brandt, with you and Mr. Masters to explain things to me; but it is the people that interest me most."
"The people!"—
"The mill hands?" Mrs. Brandt asked.
"Yes; the mill hands."
"What can you find interesting in them? I am half afraid of them, for my part."
"They look as if they wanted friends so much."