She would have carried the answers to him inside her stays,--and have made long journeys down into northern parts without any money, if the cause required it.

She would have liked to have around her ardent spirits, male or female, who would have talked of "the cause," and have kept alive in her some flame of political fire.

As it was, she had no cause.

Her father's political views were very mild.

Lady Macleod's were deadly conservative.