Diana hoped it might be possible to come.

Marsham lingered beside her to the last minute; but presently final orders had to be given to keepers, and country neighbors began to arrive.
"They do the thing here on an enormous scale," said Bobbie Forbes, lounging and smoking beside Diana; "it's almost the biggest shoot in the county.

Amusing, isn't it ?--in this Radical house.

Do you see that man McEwart ?" Diana turned her attention upon the young member of Parliament who had arrived the night before--plain, sandy-haired, with a long flat-backed head, and a gentlemanly manner.
"I suspect a good deal's going on here behind the scenes," said Bobbie, dropping his voice.

"That man Barton may be a fool to talk, but he's a great power in the House with the other Labor men.