Kate Vavasor was an aspiring Radical just now, because her brother was in the same line; but during the year of the love-passages between George and Alice, George Vavasor's politics had been as conservative as you please.

He did not become a Radical till he had quarrelled with his grandfather.

Now, indeed, he was possessed of very advanced views,--views with which Alice felt that she could sympathize.

But what would be the use of sympathizing down in Cambridgeshire?
John Grey had, so to speak, no politics.

He had decided views as to the treatment which the Roman Senate received from Augustus, and had even discussed with Alice the conduct of the Girondists at the time of Robespierre's triumph; but for Manchester and its cares he had no apparent solicitude, and had declared to Alice that he would not accept a seat in the British House of Commons if it were offered to him free of expense.