Hackworth didn't have to ponder it for long, perhaps because he'd been 
toying with these ideas so long himself. The seed of this idea had been 
germinating in his mind for some months now but had not bloomed, for the same 
reason that none of Hackworth's ideas had ever developed into companies. He 
lacked an ingredient somewhere, and as he now realized, that ingredient was 
subversiveness. Lord Alexander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw, the embodiment of the 
Victorian establishment, was a subversive. He was unhappy because his children 
were not subversives and was horrified at the thought of Elizabeth being raised 
in the stodgy tradition of her parents. So now he was trying to subvert his own 
granddaughter.