"Remember that Mr.Brooks walked all the way up from the Secular Hall with Mary." Mr.Bullsom threw down his paper with a little impatient exclamation.
"Come, come!" he said.

"I want to have a few words with Brooks myself, if you girls'll give me a chance.

Heard anything from Henslow lately, eh ?" Brooks leaned forward.
"Not a word!" he answered.
Mr.Bullsom grunted.
"H'm! He's taken his seat, and that's all he does seem to have done.

To have heard his last speech here before polling time you would have imagined him with half-a-dozen questions down before now.

He's letting the estimates go by, too.