Enjolras, usually sensitive to the slightest hint that someone might possibly be seeing him as a leader or missing an opportunity for democracy, does not in fact take Harry's statement that way. This is because the surest way to bypass all other considerations is compliment Enjolras's friends.

"They're the best of men," he says, utterly in earnest, and probably faintly glowing with the force of his sincerity. "It's a privilege to know every one of them."