When a brother or a son is an Under-Secretary of State, sisters and mothers will constantly be on the side of the Government, so far as that Under-Secretary's office is concerned.
"Upon my word, Frederic," said Augusta Fawn, "I do think Mr.
Greystock was too bad." "There's nothing these fellows won't say or do," exclaimed Lord Fawn.
"I can't understand it myself.

When I've been in opposition, I never did that kind of thing." "I wonder whether it was because he is angry with mamma," said Miss Fawn.

Everybody who knew the Fawns knew that Augusta Fawn was not clever, and that she would occasionally say the very thing that ought not to be said.
"Oh, dear, no," said the Under-Secretary, who could not endure the idea that the weak women-kind of his family should have, in any way, an influence on the august doings of Parliament.
"You know mamma did--" "Nothing of that kind at all," said his lordship, putting down his sister with great authority.

"Mr.Greystock is simply not an honest politician.

That is about the whole of it.