Meanwhile it is our brains and their feelings that do the trick.

And by the way, Lady Selina, are _you_ always so cool?
If you saw the Revolution coming to-morrow into the garden of Alresford House, would you go to the balcony and argue ?" "I devoutly hope there would be somebody ready to do something more to the point," said Lady Selina, hastily.

"But of course _we_ have enthusiasms too." "What, the Flag--and the Throne--that kind of thing ?" The ironical attention which Wharton began at this moment to devote to the selection of an olive annoyed his companion.
"Yes," she repeated emphatically, "the Flag and the Throne--all that has made England great in the past.

But we know very well that they are not _your_ enthusiasms." Wharton's upper lip twitched a little.
"And you are quite sure that Busbridge Towers has nothing to do with it ?" he said suddenly, looking round upon her.
Busbridge Towers was the fine ancestral seat which belonged to Lady Selina's father, that very respectable and ancient peer, Lord Alresford, whom an ungrateful party had unaccountably omitted--for the first time--from the latest Conservative administration.
"Of course we perfectly understand," replied Lady Selina, scornfully, "that your side--and especially your Socialist friends, put down all that _we_ do and say to greed and selfishness.

It is our misfortune--hardly our fault." "Not at all," said Wharton, quietly, "I was only trying to convince you that it is a little difficult to drive feeling out of politics.