1 A.M.
Down with ... '' commenced Elliot again , and Jacob opened his mouth to speak , but he was saved from any further need of self-defence or explanation , for at this moment the door of the office was broken rudely open and there entered like a hurricane a veritable fury in female form -- a whirlwind , a tornado , a ravening wolf into a fold of lambs . This formidable apparition , which proved to be none other than the wife of the suspected Myers , amid a volley of abuse and oaths delivered in the choicest Billingsgate , pounced down on her ill-used husband , denounced Anarchy and the Anarchists -- their morals , their creeds , their hellish machinations ; she called on Jehovah to chastise , nay , utterly to destroy them , and soundly rated her consort for ever having associated with such scoundrels . And thus this formidable preacher of dynamite and disaster was borne off in mingled triumph and disgrace by his indignant spouse . I left the office of the _ Bomb _ towards 1 A.M. , undecided whether to weep or to laugh at what I had witnessed there . This , my first introduction into an English Anarchist circle had certainly not been very encouraging , but I was too deeply persuaded of the truth and justice of the Anarchist doctrines to be deterred by such a beginning , and I did not for one instant waver from my resolve to enter and take part in the `` movement . '' That some insincere and dishonest men and some fools should also play their part in it I from the first recognised as inevitable , but I could not see that this affected the Anarchist principles or rendered it less necessary for those believing in them to advocate and spread them . Dr. Armitage accompanied me part of my way home and we talked the matter over _ en route _ .