Every sane man recognizes
certain obligations to his fellow-man, every normal one tries to pay
them, but all this rot about bringing better relations to pass
between masters and men through familiarity, through putting people
in places they are not fitted to fill, is idle dreaming based on
ignorance of human nature. To give a man what he doesn't earn is to
do him an injury. Most men win the rewards they are entitled to.
You're a visionist. You always have been--"
"And am always going to be! Life would hardly be endurable were it
not for dreaming, hoping, believing. I could stand any loss better
than that of my faith in humankind." I sat upright, my hands locked
in my lap. "I'm not here to do things for the people you have so
little patience with. I told you I wanted to see what sort of people
we are. You're perfectly certain those who live in Scarborough
Squares don't make a success of life. Do you think we do?"
Again Selwyn stopped, stared at me, but before he could answer a
queer, curdling, smothered sound reached us faintly from the street
below.
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