"Remember, papa," said she in a very low voice, "what he said one day,--about governments, you know." She was unwilling to make any clearer allusion to the conversation they had held on the mode of governing work-people--by giving men intelligence enough to rule themselves, or by a wise despotism on the part of the master--for she saw that Higgins had caught Mr. Thornton's name, if not the whole of the speech: indeed, he began to speak of him.

'Remember, papa,' said she in a very low voice, 'what he said once - about governments, you know.'
Higgins had caught Mr. Thornton's name.
