"He has one of the largest shipping businesses in Hull.

He made a very able reply, you remember, to Mr.Asquith at the last election.

It is so interesting to find that a man of his experience is a strong Protectionist." She would have liked to discuss politics, which interested her more than personalities, but Mrs.Elliot would only talk about the Empire in a less abstract form.
"I hear there are dreadful accounts from England about the rats," she said.

"A sister-in-law, who lives at Norwich, tells me it has been quite unsafe to order poultry.

The plague--you see.