Some of it penetrated into the pocket of Frank Greystock; but he earned more than money, better than money, out of that affair.

It was attributed to him by the attorneys that the Bank of England was saved from the necessity of reconstructing all its bullion-cellars, and he had made his character for industry.

In the year after that the Bobsborough people were rather driven into a corner in search of a clever young Conservative candidate for the borough, and Frank Greystock was invited to stand.

It was not thought that there was much chance of success, and the dean was against it.
But Frank liked the honour and glory of the contest, and so did Frank's mother.

Frank Greystock stood, and at the time in which he was warned away from Fawn Court had been nearly a year in Parliament.
"Of course it does interfere with one's business," he had said to his father, "but then it brings one business also.