"I have that which will keep for me the place in Parliament that has been mine; which will send him back to the isolation whence he came.

Do you think I don't know how to win an election?
Why from east to west, from north to south in this Province of Quebec my name, my fame, have been all-conquering.
Suppose he did defeat me, do you think that would end my political life?
It would end nothing.

I should still go on." A scornful smile came to her lips.

"So you think your party would find a seat for you who had been defeated by a young man who never knew what political life meant till he came to this campaign?
You think they would find you a seat?
I know you are coming to the end of your game, and when he defeats you, it will finish everything for you.

You will disappear from public life, and your day will be done.