An election audience, however, brings its own enthusiasms, and it must be a very dull dog indeed who damps their ardour.

They cheered prodigiously when Paul sat down, and a crowd of zealots waiting outside the building cheered him again as he drove off.

But Paul knew that he had been a failure.

He had delivered another man's speech.

To-morrow and the day after and the day after that, and ever afterwards, if he held to the political game, he would have to speak in his own new person.