Archibald.
We’ve been to a parish meeting.
Claude.
[Rather peevishly.] It’s getting almost impossible to do anything for these Somersetshire people. They’re such an obstinate, pig-headed lot.
Mrs. Insoley.
I prophesied it forty years ago. When they first introduced all this nonsense about education, I said it was a serious matter.
Archibald.
[With a twinkle in his eye.] Like all good prophets you apparently took care to be rather vague about it, mother.
Mrs. Insoley.
Considering you weren’t born I don’t see what you can know about it, Archibald. I said this would happen. I said they would make the lower classes so independent that no one would be able to do anything with them. I went for a walk in the village this morning and nobody took any notice of me. Isn’t that so, Louisa?