It was good that he should be England's Prime Minister, and therefore she would do all she could to keep him in that place.

The vulgarity was a necessary essential.

He might not acknowledge this,--might even, if the choice were left to him, refuse to be Prime Minister on such terms.

But she need not, therefore, give way.

Having in this way thought it all out, she took up her pen and completed the batch of letters before she allowed herself to go to bed..