Just come to the front and show yourself, and there's a place in the Ministry." "Ministry ?" "Sanderson's going." "Sanderson ?" I queried, interested, in spite of myself, at these puerilities.

"What's the matter with him ?" "Swelled head.

There have been awful rows--this is confidential--and he's got the hump.

Thinks he ought to be the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or at least First Lord, instead of an Under Secretary.

So he's going to chuck it, before he gets the chuck himself--see ?" "I perceive," said I, "that your conversational English style is abominable." He lit a cigarette and continued, loftily taking no notice of my rebuke.
"There's bound to be a vacancy.