Rockney was for sharp measures in repression, fair legislation in due course.
'Fair legislation upon your own interpretation of fair,' said Mattock, whose party opposed Rockney's.

'As to repression, you would have missed that instructive scene this evening at Con O'Donnell's table, if you had done him the kindness to pick up his glove.

It 's wisest to let them exhaust their energies upon one another.

Hold off, and they're soon at work.' 'What kind of director of a City Company does he make ?' said Rockney.
Mattock bethought him that, on the whole, strange to say, Con O'Donnell comported himself decorously as a director, generally speaking on the reasonable side, not without shrewdness: he seemed to be sobered by the money question.
'That wife of his is the salvation of him,' Rockney said, to account for the Captain's shrewdness.

'She manages him cleverly.