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The carriage is halted by a street crowd. A stalwart policeman appears. He has just arrested two women, confirmed window-smashers Grandma, the Demon, and the flapper. The flapper gives him one long look, then bows her head. She sees all the nobility she has missed. Serve her right, too! Noon came and he was about to leave the office. He was still the changed man of quip and jest.
At home, he has seen inoffensive watering places bombarded by pirate craft which came up out of the sea like malignant wraiths and then fled away like panic-stricken window-smashers. He has seen Zeppelins hovering over close-packed working-class districts in industrial towns, raining indiscriminate destruction upon men, women, and children.
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