Oh!"-- he checked my retort--"I know everything you would say.

I see the arguments every day in all your great newspapers.
But the fact remains that I don't see eye to eye with you, or those you represent.

You think one way, I think another.

We agree to differ." "We don't," said I."I don't agree at all." "At any rate," he said, "I can't see how a difference of political opinion can affect my ability now to put a new chimney-stack in your house, any more than it has done in the past." "In the past," said I, "political differences were parochial squabbles in comparison with things nowadays.

You're either for England, or against her." He smiled wryly.