As to a well-known Conservative League, which was very strong in the country, and to which all the great ladies, including Lady Winterbourne, belonged, was he actually going to demean himself by accepting its support?
How was it possible to defend the bribery, buns, and beer by which it won its corrupting way?
Altogether, a quick fire of questions, remarks, and sallies, which Aldous met and parried as best he might, comforting himself all the time by thought of those deeper and lonelier parts of the wood which lay before them.

At last she dropped out, half laughing, half defiant, words which arrested him,-- "Well, I shall know what the other side think of their prospects very soon.

Mr.Wharton is coming to lunch with us to-morrow." "Harry Wharton!" he said astonished.

"But Mr.Boyce is not supporting him.

Your father, I think, is Conservative ?" One of Dick Boyce's first acts as owner of Mellor, when social rehabilitation had still looked probable to him, had been to send a contribution to the funds of the League aforesaid, so that Aldous had public and conspicuous grounds for his remark.
"Need one measure everything by politics ?" she asked him a little disdainfully.