But the social advantages accruing to the wife of an M.P.impressed her very strongly indeed.

For such an end she was willing to make sacrifices, and the first of these declared itself in an abandonment of her opposition to Mr.Eustace Glazzard.

Her husband pointed out to her that a connection with the family so long established at Highmead would be of distinct value.

William Glazzard nominally stood on the Liberal side, but he was very lukewarm, and allowed to be seen that his political action was much swayed by personal considerations.

Eustace made no pretence of Liberal leaning; though a friend of the Radical candidate (so Quarrier was already designated by his opponents), he joked at popular enthusiasm, and could only be described as an independent aristocrat.
Money, it appeared, he had none; and his brother, it was suspected, kept up only a show of the ancestral position.