Britling conversing over hisgarden railings to what was altogether a new type of Britisher in Mr.Direck's experience. It was a tall, lean, sun-bitten youngish man offorty perhaps, in brown tweeds, looking more like the Englishman of theAmerican illustrations than anything Mr. Direck had met hitherto.
"Your schemes, for all their bigness," it insisted toour reluctant, averted minds, "still don't go down to the essentialthings...."We have to go deeper, or our inadequate children's insufficient childrenwill... read more
