As you know, I may not discuss any subject connected with my work." "Quite so! I only want to know whether your secretarial duties begin and end with your work on the Council of Defence, or are you at all in my father's confidence as regards his private affairs ?" "I am temporary secretary to the Council of Defence only, Lord Blenavon," I answered.

"I know nothing whatever of your father's private affairs.

He has his own man of business." I am not sure whether he believed me.

He cracked some walnuts and commenced peeling them.
"My father will never listen to me," he said, "but I feel sure that he makes a mistake in becoming a director of all these companies.

Politics should be quite sufficient to engross his time, and the money cannot be so much of an object to him.