In which a young woman comes to see the fierce and inexorable love of Ernest Everhard, a man who wields words as weapons against the complacency of wealth and power, culminating in a fierce and unyielding address to the elite Philomath Club. There, amidst the glittering faces of society’s masters, Ernest lays bare the chasms of mismanagement and moral failure that prop up their dominion, provoking a storm of indignation that yet reveals the iron certainty of an impending reckoning wrought by the strength of the working class.