Can you discuss terms at all for a rapprochement ?" "Out of the question!" "You mean that you are too much committed to Dartrey and the Democrats ?" "'Committed' to them is scarcely the correct way of putting it," Tallente objected.

"Their principles are in the main my principles.
They stand for the cause I have championed all my life.

Our alliance is a natural, almost an automatic one." "It's all very well, sir," Williams argued, "but Dartrey stands for a Labour Party, pure and simple.

You can't govern an Empire by parish council methods." "That is where the Democrats come in," Tallente pointed out.

"They have none of the narrower outlook of the Labour Party as you understand it--of any of the late factions of the Labour Party, perhaps I should say.