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Visitors did as they pleased, and so did Mrs. Sam, and they met
at luncheon, a meal which Sam Wyndham himself was of course unable to
attend. Joe knew this, and knew she was certain to find Sybil alone. It
was Sybil she wanted to see, and not Mrs. Wyndham. But as she walked down
Beacon Street the aspect of affairs changed in her mind.
Joe had not exaggerated when she said to Vancouver that she had a very
good memory, and it would have been better for him if he had remembered
the fact. Joe had not forgotten the conversation with him in the evening
after Harrington's speech, and in reading the article that had been sent
to her she instantly recognized a phrase, word for word as Vancouver had
uttered it. In speaking to her he had said that politics "consisted in one
half of the world trying to drive paradoxes down the throat of the other
half." It was true that in the article John Harrington was warned that he
would discover the fallacy of this proposition, but in Joe's judgment this
did not constitute an objection.


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