The party can't do without him now--but--" He paused, smiling.
"It will shed him some day ?" "It must!" "And where will Mr.Marsham be then ?" "On the winning side--I think." The tone was innocent and careless; but the words offended her.
She drew herself up a little.
"He would never betray his friends!" "Certainly not," said Mr.Frobisher, hastily; "I didn't mean that.

But Marsham has a mind more open, more elastic, more modern than Ferrier--great man as he is." Diana was silent.

She seemed still to hear some of the phrases and inflections of Mr.Ferrier's talk of the afternoon.

Mr.Frobisher's prophecy wounded some new-born sympathy in her.

She turned the conversation.
With Oliver Marsham she talked when she could, as Lady Niton allowed her.