In a full paragraph, summarise chapter XVI of ATTWN!

Vera and Lombard slowly look up at each other. They realize that there is no one on the island except the two of them. Vera asks how he was able to hit Blore with the marble bear. Lombard tells Vera that in killing Blore she pulled off quite a good conjuring trick. Vera feels like she sees Lombard's wolfish face for the first time.Lombard says that this is the end. He says it almost with acceptance, but Vera only feels rebellion. She says “Poor Dr. Armstrong.” Vera says that they should carry him up to the house and get him out of reach of the sea. Lombard laughs and agrees and they both begin tugging the body.As they get him past the reach of the sea, Lombard asks if Vera is satisfied and she says she is. She shows him his revolver, which she took from him as they were dragging the body. Lombard knows that his death is near. He tells Vera to give him the revolver and springs towards her. Vera presses the trigger. Lombard is dead – shot through the heart.Vera feels relieved. She realizes that she is hungry and sleepy, but mostly sleepy. She walks toward the house and realizes that she doesn't mind staying here anymore now that everyone is gone. As she walks in she sees three soldier boys on the dining room table and breaks two of them. She takes the third up to her room.Vera remembers the last verse of the nursery rhyme “one little soldier boy left all alone; He got married and then there were none.” She suddenly feels as if Hugo were in the house. When she gets up to her room she sees a noose hanging from the hook on ceiling of her room and a chair ready to be kicked away. Then she realizes that the last line is really “He went and hanged himself and then there were None.”The little china figure rolls out of Vera's hand. She is standing in the place where she was when she felt Cyril's cold wet hand on her throat. She realizes then that she really did murder him. She climbs on the chair, adjusts the noose around her neck and feels that Hugo is there to see what she has to do. She kicks away the chair.

Explanation:

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government is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.