"It isn't the real thing.

Now you are out of Parliament, though, even that has vanished.
Andrew!" "Well ?" She leaned a little towards him.

She began to regret that he had not accepted her invitation to visit her in her suite.

Years ago she had been able to bend him sometimes to her will.

Why should she take it for granted that she had lost her power?
Here, however, even persuasions were difficult.