e of the people he meets there speak to him nicely and are glad to see him as the one who helped them find a job. Those are the workers from his factory. Some of the others speak to him in dislike and envy. Some of them see a potential collaborator in their revolutionary plans. Finnerty has had such and similar plans and ideas before, so it is not very hard for those revolutionaries to get him on their side, but Paul is a more difficult case. Finally, he gets drunk with them and that is a more sober state for him than if he were really sober because he starts thinking of things he never did think before. He never needed to this was, to sum it up, the first time he even came to the other side of the river to the ordinary people. And this is the key moment of the turning point of the entire story. Now when he knows the mean people's thoughts and feelings of needlessness and hopelessness, he starts to think about the system of the society and social life, about his professional career, which he starts to see as not as important as it seemed to him before, and about the revolution. He starts planning. Firstly he wants to remain only an internal revolutionary. He buys one of the last farms in the country and he tells his wife to come to live there with him. She is happy because she has always liked the rural-like way of decorating interiors. But when she finds this is not rural-like but really rural, she does not feel happy at all. Since Paul insists on staying a farmer, she wants to divorce him. He quiets her down and they live separately he in the farm and she in the city house. And then the plot events begin to move. In those days the revolutionary group called the Ghost Shirt Brotherhood start acting. Firstly, they just gather new members and make plans. The leadership of the industry learns about them and tries to spy on them to destroy them as a saboteur group. Paul is invited to see Kroner, his superior. He learns he is the one for th...
