They laughed when Obinze said, “I don’t understand why fox hunting is such a big issue in this country. Aren’t there more important things?” “What could possibly be more important?” Mark asked drily. “Well, it’s the only way we know how to fight our class warfare,” Alexa said. “The landed gentry and the aristocrats hunt, you see, and we liberal middle classes fume about it. We want to take their silly little toys away.”

