Our confidential observerssupplemented the picture
by their reports.
Yet certain things came to beunderstood between us.
Discontent alone, Mr Beatty argued, was not enough to bring itabout. One day he
casually called at Whitby, throwing my sisters into aflutter of confusion. And I,
too, laughed without the leastembarrassment.
By the middleof the summer there must have been
close to five hundred tents atthe head of the lake.
Since scores of families were involved, the thing
could not be keptsecret. To bring it about would be a tremendoustask, he said; but
it was the only way to avoid utter chaos. If anything more is needed, I might add
that I dontknow whether you are right.
He never gave me to understand that heloved me.
Therethey go, he said one night, laughing.
But I was too inexorably in the marketto let myself
go. I was grateful for that; Ibegan to like him tremendously; but I did not love
him. A jester in the group whichheard this amended him.
But, right or wrong, I believe you area great
man.
Therethey go, he said one night,
laughing.
She lives, by the way, in the upperGatineau Valley.
That, too, became a tag and was quoted onall sorts of occasions.
At last, once more,it seemed a huge joke. He was
the man I sent thereby aeroplane to give the late Sir Edmund the news of the
walkout.
This, he said, is thesort of thing which captivates
the colonial mind. I never gave any liking, any incipientinclination a chance to
ripen.
Nobody can be sure in advance that he is
right.
I soonsaw that it was too late in the day for me to
rebel.
Certain women becameincreasingly provocative;
certain men, increasingly pressing intheir response.
I became interested in his social views; they were
at leastutterly unsentimental. Since scores of families were involved, the thing
could not be keptsecret.
Since scores of families were involved, the thing
could not be keptsecret.
Physically, he was not repulsive to me, in spiteof
his disabilities. I am merely quoting, of course, what was being said. Themachine
may come to be worshipped as the god of a new universe,dispensing the good and the
evil.