Kroll. You are going to help your old friends, and do as we are
doing--take your share in it to the best of your ability.

Rebecca. But, Mr. Kroll, you know how little taste Mr. Rosmer has
for that sort of thing.

Kroll. Then he has got to overcome that distaste now. You do not
keep abreast of the times, John. You sit here and bury yourself
in your historical researches. Goodness knows, I have the
greatest respect for family pedigrees and all that they imply.
But this is not the time for such occupations, unhappily. You
have no conception of the state of affairs that is going on all
over the country. Every single idea is turned upside down, or
very nearly so. It will be a hard fight to get all the errors
straightened out again.

Rosmer. I can quite believe it. But that sort of a fight is not
in my line at all.

Rebecca. Besides, I rather fancy that Mr. Rosmer has come to look
at the affairs of life with wider opened eyes than before.

Kroll (with a start). Wider opened eyes?

Rebecca. Yes, or with an opener mind--with less prejudice.

Kroll. What do you mean by that? John--surely you could never be
so weak as to allow yourself to be deluded by the accidental
circumstance that the demagogues have scored a temporary success!