25/26 There are deuced clever fellows in Parliament. I met one in Venice two or three years ago. He knew an awful lot of things. We spent an evening together on the Grand Canal and he talked all the time most interestingly on the drainage system of Barrow-in-Furness. I wonder how fellows get to know about drains." Emmy said: "Would it make you happy ?" From her tone he gathered that she referred to the subject of contention between them and not to his thirst for sanitary information. |