"We could not command our men, and were bound to go out.

For aught we knew, some score of them might have chosen to support Lord de Terrier, and then we should have owned ourselves beaten for the time." "You were beaten,--hollow," said Miss Fitzgibbon.
"Then why did Lord de Terrier dissolve ?" "A Prime Minister is quite right to dissolve in such a position," said Lord Brentford.

"He must do so for the Queen's sake.

It is his only chance." "Just so.

It is, as you say, his only chance, and it is his right.
His very possession of power will give him near a score of votes, and if he thinks that he has a chance, let him try it.