Yet here at least, if anywhere in the world, we should all meet upon equal ground.
Music is a universal leveler." "And we haven't a chance," Lady Carey remarked with uplifted eyebrows, "of listening to a bar of it." Lucille welcomed the newcomer coldly.

Nevertheless, he manoeuvred himself into the place by her side.

She took up her fan and commenced swinging it thoughtfully.
"You are surprised to see me here ?" he murmured.
"Yes!" she admitted.
He looked wearily away from the stage up into her face.
"And I too," he said.

"I am surprised to find myself here!" "I pictured you," she remarked, "as immersed in affairs.

Did I not hear something of a Radical ministry with you for Premier ?" "It has been spoken of," he admitted.
"Then I really cannot see," she said, "what you are doing here." "Why not ?" he asked doggedly.
She shrugged her shoulders.
"In the first place," she said, "you ought to be rushing about amongst your supporters, keeping them up to the mark, and all that sort of thing.