Paul Ruttledge. Yes, I used to like once to see all the faces looking up at me. But now all that is gone from me. Now I think it is enough to be a witness for the truth, and to think the thoughts I like. God will bring the people to me. He will make of my silence a great wind that will shatter the ships of the world.
Colman. That is all very well, but the people are not coming.
Aloysius. And more than that, they are driving us away from their doors now, Paul.
Charlie Ward. The way they do to us. But Paul was not born on the roads. [Lights his pipe.
Colman. It's no use stopping waiting for a wind; if we have anything to say that's worth the people listening to, we must bring them to hear it one way or another. Now, it is what I was saying to Aloysius, we must begin teaching them to make things, they never had the chance of any instruction of the sort here.
Paul Ruttledge. To make things? This sort of things? [Takes the half-made basket from Colman.
Colman. Those and other things, we got a good training in the old days. And we'll get a grant from the Technical Board. The Board pays up to four hundred pounds to some of its instructors.
Paul Ruttledge. And then?
Aloysius. Oh, then we'll sell all the things we make. I'm sure we'll get a market for them.
Paul Ruttledge. Oh, I understand; you will sell them. And what about the dividing of the money? You will need to make laws about that.