I don't wish to flatter myself, but as regards education, service to the cause, familiarity with public speaking and the number of those I represent--" "Yes, yes! I see," she interrupted.

"Taking the twenty Labour representatives only, Mr.Fenn, I can see nothing against your selection, but I fancied, somehow, that some one outside--the Bishop, for instance--" "Absolutely out of the question," Fenn declared.

"The people would lose faith in the whole thing in a minute.

The person who throws down the gage to the Prime Minister must have the direct mandate of the people." They finished dinner presently.

Fenn looked with admiration at the gold, coroneted case from which Catherine helped herself to one of her tiny cigarettes.