'But can you leave London ?' she asked.
'Oh yes; I have made arrangements for that,' he replied.

'I have got Burl to look after things here.' 'Mr.Burl ?' 'Yes; it's rather funny,' said Drake, with a laugh.

'He came to ask me whether I was disposed to take up politics.

There was a constituency in Yorkshire he could arrange for me to stand for--Bentbridge.

Do you know it ?' 'I have been there.