And when I told him about your owning Prime Minister he got savage and declared that was the very reason why I shouldn't go." "You didn't tell me that." "I was determined I would go.

I wasn't going to be made a child of." At last it was decided that the two brothers should go down to Cambridge together.

Silverbridge would be able to come back to London the same evening, so as to take his drag down to the Oaks on the Friday,--a duty from which even his present misery would not deter him.

They reached Cambridge at about three, and Lord Silverbridge at once called at the Master's lodge and sent in his card.

The Master of Trinity is so great that he cannot be supposed to see all comers, but on this occasion Lord Silverbridge was fortunate.