I know beforehand that any scheme in
which you are engaged is for the benefit of our fellow creatures
and not for their harm. But alas! you make yourself the judge of
these things, and there are times when individual effort is the
most dangerous thing in life."
"If you were any one else!" she sighed.
"Why be prejudiced about me?" he protested. "Believe me, I am not
a frivolous person. I, too, think of life and its problems. You
yourself are an aristocrat. Why should not I as well as you have
sympathy and feeling for those who suffer?"
"I am a Russian," she reminded him, "and in Russia it is
different. Besides, I am no longer an aristocrat. I am a
citizeness of the world. I have eschewed everything in life
except one thing, and for that I have worked with all my heart and
strength. As for you, what have you done? What is your record?"
"Insignificant, I fear," he admitted. "You see, a very promising
start at the Bar was somewhat interfered with by my brief period
of soldiering."
"At the present moment you have no definite career," she declared.
"You have even been wasting your time censoring."
"I am returning now to my profession."
"Your profession!" she scoffed. "That means you will spend your
time wrangling with a number of other bewigged and narrow-minded
people about uninteresting legal technicalities which lead nowhere
and which no one cares about."
"There is my journalism."
"You have damned it with your own phrase 'hack journalism'!"
"I may enter Parliament.
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