Even now I have doubts as to whether I have altogether reassured him.

I really believe, dear Duchess, that we should be better off if you could persuade him to go and live upon his estates." The Duchess smiled grimly.
"Whilst the House of Lords exists," she remarked, "you will never succeed in keeping Algernon away from London.

He is always on the point of making a speech, although he never does it." "I have heard of that speech," Lady Carey drawled, from her low seat.
"It is to be a thoroughly enlightening affair.

All the great social questions are to be permanently disposed of.

The Prime Minister will come on his knees and beg Algernon to take his place." The Duchess looked up over her knitting.
"Algernon is at least in earnest," she remarked drily.