"I tell you I've done absolutely nothing," he repeated testily. "I'm no use."
"But surely you're on a dozen committees?" I said.
"No," he said, "not one."
"Then you have started a Fund? Some minor fund guaranteed not to divert any money from the big ones?"
"No."
"But of course you've written to the papers?" I went on.
"No."
"Not about anything? Not to make the Government buck up about blankets or squashing German lies, or allowing Correspondents at the Front, or anything like that?"
"No."
"But surely you have views as to the better management of things? The Press Bureau, for instance. Haven't you pitched into that?"