Senator Hanway was on the other side of Mr.Gwynn.The party was not large--eight in all--and, besides the trio named and Mr.Harley, counted such partisans of Senator Hanway as Senators Gruff and Kink and Wink and Loot and Price.

Mr.Gwynn was delighted to meet so much good company, and intimated it in a manner decorously conventional.
"Isn't he utterly English, and therefore utterly admirable ?" whispered Mrs.Hanway-Harley to Senator Loot.
That statesman agreed to this as well as he could with a mouth at work on fish.
"Mr.Gwynn," said Mrs.Hanway-Harley affably, "I shall make the most of you while I may.

You know I only intend to see you gentlemen safely launched, and then I shall retire." Mr.Gwynn bowed gravely.

Mr.Gwynn's strength lay in bowing.

He was also remarkable for the unflagging attention which he paid to whatever was said to him.