The suave young man, however, had done his duty. He was paid to be suave to all comers, and suave he was, in excellent English - for the B.B.C. cherishes an ineradicable hope that if it persistently addresses the public in good English with a cultured accent, by and by it will be as if the entire population of Great Britain had been educated at Winchester, and what nobler ideal can democracy set itself than that?