If I see him, I'll head him off." She strolled away.

The Prime Minister sank back upon a couch.

His air of well-bred content with himself and life fell away from him the moment his hostess was out of sight.
"Tallente," he said, "I suppose you mean to break us ?" "I thought we'd been rather friendly," was the quiet reply.

"We've been letting you have your own way for nearly a month." "That is simply because we are on work which we are tackling practically in the fashion you dictated," Horlock pointed out.

"When we have finished this Irish business, what are you going to do ?" "I am not the leader of the party," Tallente reminded him.
"From a parliamentary point of view you are," was the impatient protest.
"Dartrey is a dreamer.