If you keep on you may become a Member of Parliament some day!" He laughed.

"Your gifts have their own way of stinging.

I don't believe I could be elected to Parliament.

I haven't the trick of popularity of that kind." Many thoughts flashed through Tarboe's mind.

If he married her now, and the truth was told about the wills and the law gave Carnac his rights, she might hate him for not having told her when he proposed.