ABSTRACT
A WEEK later Maclaine was smoking on the terrace at Westminster with another Member of the House of Commons. They had come out after a prolonged debate round and about the Nationalization of the Railways Bill, and cups of tea stood on a table between them, a luxury at this time reserved for the prosperous, tea being one of the most taxed of popular imports; and for some time it had been a government policy to tax everything popular.
