At the very passage of the Bill itself a question was asked by one of the new labour members, a miner, my dear, a quite uneducated man----" "Yes ?" queried Lady Elphinspoon.
"He asked the Colonial Secretary"-- Sir John shuddered--"to tell him where Wazuchistan is.

Worse than that, my dear," added Sir John, "he defied him to tell him where it is." "What did you do?
Surely he has no right to information of that sort ?" "It was a close shave.

Luckily the Whips saved us.

They got the Secretary out of the House and rushed him to the British Museum.

When he got back he said that he would answer the question a month from Friday.
We got a great burst of cheers, but it was a close thing.