I suppose I'm safe down in Mayo, but there's no knowing what may happen in these days." As they parted at Euston Square, Phineas asked his friend some little nervous question as to the best mode of making a first entrance into the House.

Would Laurence Fitzgibbon see him through the difficulties of the oath-taking?
But Laurence Fitzgibbon made very little of the difficulty.

"Oh;--you just come down, and there'll be a rush of fellows, and you'll know everybody.

You'll have to hang about for an hour or so, and then you'll get pushed through.

There isn't time for much ceremony after a general election." Phineas reached London early in the morning, and went home to bed for an hour or so.