do you?” she replied, laughing with antagonism.

“I don't — but we've got to back up those who do.

“Why have we?”

“Where is the nation if we don't?”

“But we aren't the nation. There are heaps of other people who are the nation.”

“They might say they weren't either.”

“Well, if everybody said it, there wouldn't be a nation.

But I should still be myself,” she asserted brilliantly.

“You wouldn't be yourself if there were no nation.”

“Why not?”