He will be our leader in the House of Lords before many years have passed." "He is, I believe," Mr.Sabin remarked, "of the same politics as yourself." "We are both," Mr.Brott answered, with a smile, "I am afraid outside the pale of your consideration in this respect.

We are both Radicals." Mr.Sabin lit another cigarette and glanced once more at the clock.
"A Radical peer!" he remarked.

"Isn't that rather an anomaly?
The principles of Radicalism and aristocracy seem so divergent." "Yet," Mr.Brott said, "they are not wholly irreconcilable.

I have often wished that this could be more generally understood.

I find myself at times very unpopular with people, whose good opinion I am anxious to retain, simply owing to this too general misapprehension." Mr.Sabin smiled gently.
"You were referring without doubt--" he began.
"To the Countess," Brott admitted.