He had filled up the other places.

He was at a loss for a Colonial Secretary.

This name and that was suggested, and thrown aside.

At last he said, 'I suppose I must take the thing myself.
Come upstairs with me, Helps, when the Council is over.

We will look at the maps, and you shall show me where these places are.'" If Froude's memory of this anecdote be accurate, Helps must, for once, have been drawing upon his imagination.