CHAPTER VI.
Lord Brentford's Dinner No;--in such case as that,--should he resolve upon taking the advice of his old friend Mr.Low, Phineas Finn must make up his mind never to see Lady Laura Standish again! And he was in love with Lady Laura Standish;--and, for aught he knew, Lady Laura Standish might be in love with him.

As he walked home from Mr.Low's house in Bedford Square, he was by no means a triumphant man.

There had been much more said between him and Mr.Low than could be laid before the reader in the last chapter.

Mr.Low had urged him again and again, and had prevailed so far that Phineas, before he left the house, had promised to consider that suicidal expedient of the Chiltern Hundreds.

What a by-word he would become if he were to give up Parliament, having sat there for about a week! But such immediate giving up was one of the necessities of Mr.Low's programme.