He knows far more than I do." "More than you! But you have been a Cabinet Minister!" she exclaimed.
"So was your uncle once," he answered.

"So he could be again whenever he chose." She looked at him incredulously.
"You don't really mean that, Sir Leslie ?" "Indeed I do!" he asserted.

"There was never a man within my recollection or knowledge who in so short a time made for himself a position so brilliant as your uncle.

There is no man to-day whose written word carries so much weight with the people." She sighed a little doubtfully.
"Then if that is so," she said, "I cannot imagine why we live down here, hundreds of miles away from everywhere.

Why did he give it up?
Why is he not in Parliament now ?" "It is to ask him that question, Miss Mannering," Borrowdean said, "that I am here.