Kangaroo

CHAPTER V. COO-EE-6

“ You don’t take Callcott and his politics seriously, do you?” she said to him at evening.

“ Yes,” he said, rather hesitatingly.

“ But what does he want?”

“ To have another sort of government for the Commonwealth—with a sort of Dictator: not the democratic vote-cadging sort.”

“ But what does that matter to you?”

“ It does matter. If you can start a new life-form.”

“ You know quite well you say yourself life doesn’t start with a form. It starts with a new feeling, and ends with a form.”

“ I know. But I think there is a new feeling.”

“ In Callcott?” She had a very sceptical intonation.

“ Yes.”

“ I very much doubt it. He’s a returned war hero, and he wants a chance of keeping on being a hero—or something like that.”

“ But even that is a new feeling,”