He thought very likely that the Government would then give him a modest place in the Administration.

He might begin by representing the Admiralty in the Lords, and as soon as he got a foot on the political ladder prospects would open.

On the whole, he thought, politics would be his line.

He had no personal axes to grind; was afraid of nothing; wouldn't care if the Lords were done away with to-morrow, and could live on a fraction of his income if the Socialists insisted on grabbing the rest.
But the new world which the war had opened was a desperately interesting one.

He hadn't enough at stake in it to spoil his nerve.