I am not surprised that the Americans can't understand it." "They don't suggest, I suppose," the Duke asked, "that we are not trying to clear the matter up ?" "They don't suggest it," his chief answered, "but I can't quite make out what's at the back of their heads.

However, I won't bother you about that now.

If I were to propound Heseltine's theory to you, you would think that he had been reading the works of some of our enterprising young novelists.

Things will have cleared up, I dare say, by next week.
I am coming round to the House for a moment if you're not in a hurry." The Duke assented, and waited while the secretary locked up the papers which the Prime Minister had been examining, and prepared others to be carried into the House.

The two men left the place together, and the Duke pointed toward his brougham.
"Do you mind walking ?" the Prime Minister said.