"In the first place, there were difficulties, and in the second, nothing would have induced me to accept such a humiliating offer." "How did you find this out ?" she enquired.
"The Prime Minister offered me the peerage less than an hour ago," he answered.

"I need not say that I unhesitatingly refused it." Stella ceased buttoning her gloves.

There was a cold glitter in her eyes.
"You refused it ?" "Of course!" She was silent for a moment.
"Andrew," she said, "you have scarcely kept your bargain with me." "I am not prepared to admit that," he replied.

"You had a very considerable social position at the time when I was in office.

It was up to you to make that good." "I am tired of political society," she answered.