13/25 But all this is papa's wisdom, not mine. Papa has never been in the Cabinet yet, and therefore of course he is a little caustic." "I think he was quite right," said Barrington Erle stoutly. He spoke so stoutly that everybody at the table listened to him. "Lord de Terrier took office knowing that he was in a minority. We had a fair majority of nearly thirty when he came in." "Then how very soft you must have been to go out," said Miss Fitzgibbon. |