But what can we do?
The best we can hope is that El Boob will acquiesce in the _status quo_." At that moment a manservant appeared in the doorway of the conservatory.
"Mr.Powers, sir," he said, "Sir John desires your attendance, sir, in the library, sir." Powers turned to Angela, a new seriousness upon his face.
"Miss Elphinspoon," he said, "I think I know what is coming.

Will you wait for me here?
I shall be back in half an hour." "I will wait," said the girl.

She sat down and waited among the begonias, her mind still on the Wazoo, her whole intense nature strung to the highest pitch.

"Can the _modus vivendi_ hold ?" she murmured.
In half an hour Powers returned.

He was wearing now his hat and light overcoat, and carried on a strap round his neck a tin box with a white painted label, "_British Foreign Office.