He got it to read and recommended it enthusiastically.

They are to publish it in June.

Wasn't it generous of him, because there is so little of it he can agree with ?" "Oh, Ilbert's conscience is pretty elastic, I should say, and he can agree with many things," Sir Robin answered.

He felt vaguely annoyed that Ilbert should have had anything to do with Mary or her book.

Ilbert was one of the younger school of Tories, a free-lance he called himself, handsome, conceited, immensely clever, a golden youth with an air of Oxford and the Schools added to him.