On these things some of us will fight, if it must come to that." Wharton laughed.
"It would be a national misfortune if you didn't give us a stiff job," he said, with an airy good-humour which at once made the other's blustering look ridiculous.
"I wonder what that fellow is going to do in the House," said the permanent official to his companion as they went slowly upstairs, Wharton being some distance ahead.

"People are all beginning to talk of him as a coming man, though nobody quite knows why, as yet.

They tell me he frames well in speaking, and will probably make a mark with his speech next Friday.

But his future seems to me very doubtful.

He can only become a power as the head of a new Labour party.