He would not have dared to tell his visitor where his thoughts had been for the last half hour.
"Somehow," he said, "I do not think that little trip to Windsor will come just yet.

The King will never send for me unless he is compelled." His visitor, an ex-Cabinet Minister, a pronounced Radical and a lifelong friend of Brott's, shrugged his shoulders.
"That time," he said, "is very close at hand.

He will send for Letheringham first, of course, and great pressure will be brought to bear upon him to form a ministry.

But without you he will be helpless.
He has not the confidence of the people." "Without me," Brott repeated slowly.

"You think then that I should not accept office with Letheringham ?" His visitor regarded him steadily for a moment, open-mouthed, obviously taken aback.
"Brott, are you in your right senses ?" he asked incredulously.