"I am not a Conservative." "Not a Conservative ?" he said joyously.

"Oh! but impossible! Does that mean that you ever read my poor little speeches ?" He pointed to the local newspaper, freshly cut, which lay on a table at Marcella's elbow.
"Sometimes--" said Marcella, embarrassed.

"There is so little time." In truth she had hardly given his candidature a thought since the day Aldous proposed to her.

She had been far too much taken up with her own prospects, with Lady Winterbourne's friendship, and her village schemes.
He laughed.
"Of course there is.

When is the great event to be ?" "I didn't mean that," said Marcella, stiffly.