'
"In the interval before the wine was brought Farrell gave me a short
account of the meeting he had just left: and he didn't lighten the
atmosphere of suspicion around us by suddenly sinking his voice to a
kind of conspirator's whisper. The meeting (it appeared) had been
lively, and more than lively. Our small incursion--or the
Professor's, rather--had been a fool to it. For the Professor's
loyal pupils, stung by that letter in the _Times_, had organised a
counter-demonstration. 'Their behaviour,' Farrell reported, 'was
unbridled.' They would hardly allow me a hearing. I give you my
word--and I wish Sir Roderick to know it--I was prepared to tell them
that information had come to me which put a different complexion on
the whole case. I was even prepared to tell them that, while I
should ever insist on the South London University College and all
similar institutions being subject to a more public control with an
increased representation of local rate-payers on their governing
bodies, I was confident that in this particular case the charge had
been too hasty.
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