Your address is here, I understand ?" He pointed to the papers.
"Yes, Mr.Brand.There is one more question." "I must not stay, sir," said Oliver, shaking his head.
"One instant--is it true that this worship will be compulsory ?" Oliver bowed as he gathered up his papers.
II Mabel, seated in the gallery that evening behind the President's chair, had already glanced at her watch half-a-dozen times in the last hour, hoping each time that twenty-one o'clock was nearer than she feared.

She knew well enough by now that the President of Europe would not be half-a-minute either before or after his time.

His supreme punctuality was famous all over the continent.

He had said Twenty-One, so it was to be twenty-one.
A sharp bell-note impinged from beneath, and in a moment the drawling voice of the speaker stopped.

Once more she lifted her wrist, saw that it wanted five minutes of the hour; then she leaned forward from her corner and stared down into the House.
A great change had passed over it at the metallic noise.