CHAPTER VIII.
The News about Mr.Mildmay and Sir Everard Fitzgibbon and Phineas started together from Pall Mall for Portman Square,--as both of them had promised to call on Lady Laura,--but Fitzgibbon turned in at Brooks's as they walked up St.James's Square, and Phineas went on by himself in a cab.

"You should belong here," said Fitzgibbon as his friend entered the cab, and Phineas immediately began to feel that he would have done nothing till he could get into Brooks's.

It might be very well to begin by talking politics at the Reform Club.

Such talking had procured for him his seat at Loughshane.

But that was done now, and something more than talking was wanted for any further progress.