"Is he an admirer ?" Nora's face was almost ludicrously expressive.
"He would like to he," she admitted, "but, thick-skinned though he is, I have managed to make him understand pretty well how I feel about him.
You'll find him a thorn in your side," she went on reflectively.
"You see, if our party has a fault, it is in a certain lack of system.
We have only a titular chief and no real leader.

Miller thinks that post is his by predestination.

Your coming is beginning to worry him already.

It was entirely on your account he paid me that visit this afternoon." "To be perfectly frank with you," Tallente sighed, "I should find Miller a loathsome coadjutor." "There are drawbacks to everything in life," Nora replied.

"Long before Miller has become anything except a nuisance to you, you will have realised that the only political party worth considering, during the next fifty years, at any rate, will be the Democrats.