I have known the time when I have had to thread my way through a crowd of white, angry men, all swearing they would have Makinson's blood as soon as he ventured to show his nose out of his factory; and he, knowing nothing of it, some one had to go and tell him, or he was a dead man; and it needed to be a woman,--so I went. 
I have known the time when I have had to thread my way through a crowd of angry men, all swearing they would have Makinson's blood as soon as he ventured out of his factory; someone had to go and warn him, and it needed to be a woman - so I went. 