"You will disappoint no one.

You are the one person in politics who has kept a steadfast course, and if you have lost ground a little in the country, and slipped out of people's political appreciation during the last decade, don't we all know why?
Every one of your friends--and your wife, of course," she put in hastily, "must be proud that you have lost ground.

There isn't another man in the country who gave up a great political career to learn his drill in a cadet corps, who actually served in the trenches through the most terrible battles of the war, and came out of it a Brigadier-General with all your distinctions." He felt his heart suddenly swell.

No one had ever spoken to him like this.

The newspapers had been complimentary for a day and had accepted the verdict of circumstances the next.