'You see, there are so few people who really care for one another.

If you find two who do, I am sure they would conquer, whatever stood in the way.' The conversation was interrupted, to Drake's relief, by Captain Le Mesurier.

He rose from the corner of the table to propose the health of the guest of the evening.

He said that he was proud to be represented in Parliament by a man of Stephen Drake's calibre.

If there was anything of which he was prouder, it was the way in which the election had been fought at Bentbridge.