How it opens
The Dower House at Matching's Easy was your own small kingdom of paper, roses, and arrears.
You wrote, in the year of grace 1914, two articles a week and a book every other year.
Mr DireckI have read your essays, Mr Britling. They gave me the sense of a very stable country.
Stability is our chief manufacture, Mr Direck. We export the surplus and keep none at home.
Mrs BritlingDo not encourage him before dinner. He is at his best after the second glass and the third subject.
Choose
The week in review, as usual, on the German tariff and the incorrigible Balkans.
An essay on stable England, at your American visitor's particular request.
Nothing at all, for a fortnight, on the grounds of the strawberry season.