There is plenty of time for you to take up such a pursuit when you have finished your work." "Fifteen thousand intelligent voters have just done their best to tell me that it is already finished," he sighed.
She made a little grimace.
"Am I going to be disappointed in you, I wonder ?" she asked.

"I don't think so.

You surely wouldn't let a little affair like one election drive you out of public life?
It was so obvious that you were made the victim for Horlock's growing unpopularity in the country.

Haven't you realised that yourself--or perhaps you don't care to talk about these things to an ignoramus such as I am ?" "Please don't believe that," he begged hastily.

"I think yours is really the common-sense view of the matter.