Oh, it doesn't do to be importunate, you know.
Rebecca. If you only knew how we have missed you.
Kroll. And, besides, I have been away, you know.
Rebecca. Yes, for a fortnight or so. I suppose you have been
going the round of the public meetings?
Kroll (nods). Yes, what do you say to that? Would you ever have
thought I would become a political agitator in my old age--eh?
Rebecca (smilingly). You have always been a little bit of an
agitator, Mr. Kroll.
Kroll. Oh, yes; just for my own amusement. But for the future it
is going to be in real earnest. Do you ever read the Radical
newspapers?
Rebecca. Yes, I won't deny that!
Kroll. My dear Miss West, there is no objection to that--not as
far as you are concerned.
Rebecca. No, that is just what I think. I must follow the course
of events--keep up with what is happening.
Kroll. Well, under any circumstances, I should never expect you,
as a woman, to side actively with either party in the civic
dispute--indeed one might more properly call it the civil war--that
is raging here. I dare say you have read, then, the abuse these
"nature's gentlemen" are pleased to shower upon me, and the
scandalous coarseness they consider they are entitled to make use
of?
Rebecca. Yes, but I think you have held your own pretty forcibly.
Kroll. That I have--though I say it. I have tasted blood now, and
I will make them realise that I am not the sort of man to take it
lying down--.
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