It won't do much to-day, but there was a time when it would have changed the course of an election....

Ah, there's Effie's young man.

It's time." She rose and marched, with the air of going to a last sacrifice, across the deserted sward toward a young man who was passing under the calico flag of the gateway.
"It's all right, Willoughby," she said, as we drew level, "I've found someone else to face the music with me; you can go back to Effie." A bronzed and grateful young man murmured thanks to me.
"It's an awful relief, Granger," he said; "can't think how you can do it.

I'm hooked, but you...." "He's the better man," his mother-in-law-elect said, over her shoulder.
She sailed slowly up the aisle beside me, an almost heroic figure of a matron.

"Splendidly timed, you see," she said, "do you observe my husband's embarrassment ?" It was splendid to see Churchill again, standing there negligently, with the diffidence of a boy amid the bustle of applause.