But Paul, confident in his destiny, did not doubt that he would be selected.

And then, within the next fortnight--for bye-elections during a Parliamentary session are matters of sweeping swiftness--would come the great battle, the great decisive battle of his life, and he would win.

He must win.

His kingdom was at stake--the dream kingdom of his life into which he would enter with his loved and won Princess on his arm.

He poured splendid foolishness through the telephone into an enraptured ear.
The lack of a sense of proportion is a charge often brought against women; but how often do men (as they should) thank God for it?
Here was Sophie Zobraska, reared from childhood in the atmosphere of great affairs, mixing daily with folk who guided the destiny of nations, having two years before refused in marriage one of those who held the peace of Europe in his hands, moved to tense excitement of heart and brain and soul by the news that an obscure young man might possibly be chosen to contest a London Borough for election to the British Parliament, and thrillingly convinced that now was imminent the great momentous crisis in the history of mankind.
With a lack of the same sense of proportion, equal in kind, though perhaps not so passionate in degree, did Miss Winwood receive the world-shaking tidings.