"Of course you know there is an autumn session on.
With these Radical Governments we shall soon have one every year." "What! the Education Bill again to-morrow ?" said Everett.

"What are you going to do with it ?" Lord Waynflete looked at the speaker with some distaste.

He did not much approve of sporting parsons, and Everett's opinions were too Liberal to please him.

But he let himself be drawn, and soon the whole room was in eager debate on some of the old hot issues between Church and Dissent.
Lord Waynflete ceased to be merely fatuous and kindly.

His talk became shrewd, statesmanlike even; he was the typical English aristocrat and Anglican Churchman, discussing topics with which he had been familiar from his cradle, and in a manner and tone which every man in the room--save the two Canadians--accepted without question.