He thought, smiling, that some of them would perhaps find that convenient.
The M.P.leaned back in his chair.

"Well, sir," he said, "I'm sorry to be a wet-blanket, but if that is so, the scheme is wrecked from the start.
You don't know the men; I do.

They're not going to line up, like the pupils of Dotheboys Academy, for a spoonful of brimstone and treacle." The meeting was slightly scandalised.

The chairman, however, rose to the occasion.

That, he said, was a matter for H.Q.They were there to do their duty.