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He had had some decisive conversations. He had no illusions
left upon that score. . . .
Here was the real barrier that had kept him inactive for ten months.
Here was the problem he had to solve. This was how he had been left
out of active things, a prey to distractions, excitements, idle
temptations--and Mrs. Skelmersdale.
Running away to shoot big game or explore wildernesses was no
remedy. That was just running away. Aristocrats do not run away.
What of his debt to those men down there in the quarry? What of his
debt to the unseen men in the mines away in the north? What of his
debt to the stokers on the liners, and to the clerks in the city?
He reiterated the cardinal article of his creed: The aristocrat is a
privileged man in order that he may be a public and political man.
But how is one to be a political man when one is not in politics?
Benham frowned at the Weald. His ideas were running thin.
He might hammer at politics from the outside. And then again how?
He would make a list of all the things that he might do. For
example he might write.


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