We have very little time to spare, if these
plotters arereally about to spring a mine.
At least Im sure you must be really apatriot and I
want to know why you dont behave like one.
I am quite ready to go back toprison if you will
not accept them.
The journalists tellthem to be loyal to their Party
and to their Trusted Leaders and all therest. You dont care for anything oranybody
but your own chin and your own brutal pride. I know, she said obstinately, but its
your own fault, isnt it? If you like to put it so, she said quite steadily, do it
for me.
Oh, I hate that obstinate _expression_ youve got!
Colonel Grimm flungopen the door of the poets suite of apartments and found it was
acupboard. I will go on and look round; theywont be alarmed at me.
To obey you would be apleasure, but I dont believe
a bit of what you say about it being aduty.
You can go into the house in a minute, said Conrad
in the same lowvoice.
If you like to put it so, she said quite steadily,
do it for me. I expect theytreated you rottenly, really.
There was not much room to store dynamite ordump
munitions here, anyhow. Adog has only got a master, and naturally he sticks to the
only dutyrequired of him. I do not think it will destroy the world, answered Conrad
gravely.
Curiously enough, it was concerned with the
verycontrary. The last clause was perhaps an afterthought. Yes, answered the other,
but the word is One.
So thats the end of all your heroics and
stubbornness and sticking outyour chin, she said. What is that compared with what
the country has done for us all? At least Im sure you must be really apatriot and I
want to know why you dont behave like one.
Well, he said, I certainly didnt suppose you
regarded them with somuch sympathy.