Might she assume, after the fourth course, that his hunger was at least scotched and conversation thrown open?
"I am fortified--thank you.

Shall we go back to where we left off?
You had just accused me of ruining the country ?" "By easy stages," said Diana.

"Wasn't that where we had come to?
But first--tell me, because it's all so puzzling!--do you and Mr.
Marsham agree ?" "A good deal.

But he thinks _he_ can use _us_--which is his mistake." "And Mr.Ferrier ?" Mr.Frobisher shook his head good-humoredly.
"No, no!--Ferrier is a Whig--the Whig of to-day, _bien entendu_, who is a very different person from the Whig of yesterday--still, a Whig, an individualist, a moderate man.

He leads the Liberal party--and it is changing all the time under his hand into something he dreads and detests.