Chapter 40

Probyn prevaricated. His attitude towards Lance’s career had changed during the last twelve months, but he was not going to tell his wife so. You should never be completely frank with women. Business was all very well, and to Probyn business had meant profits, not the service of making the goods that the multitude needed. He was the financier, not the creator; he manipulated things. And with the present attitude of organised labour and the state of trade he was thinking less and less of creation and more and more o…