"No, indeed," she said to our hero, who on the first evening had the pleasure of taking her in to dinner, "unfortunately I haven't a seat in Parliament, and therefore I am not asked." "Lady Laura is going." "Yes;--but Lady Laura has a Cabinet Minister in her keeping.

I've only one comfort;--you'll be awfully dull." "I daresay it would be very much nicer to stay here," said Phineas.
"If you want to know my real mind," said Violet, "I would give one of my little fingers to go.

There will be four Cabinet Ministers in the house, and four un-Cabinet Ministers, and half a dozen other members of Parliament, and there will be Lady Glencora Palliser, who is the best fun in the world; and, in point of fact, it's the thing of the year.

But I am not asked.

You see I belong to the Baldock faction, and we don't sit on your side of the House.