(Applause.) You needn't think I'm saying this for a lark.

I'm pretty sure to catch it, but I don't care; I'll say what I think.
(Cries of 'We'll back you up,' and cheers.) You're not obliged to have a monitor to be Usher of the Chapel, and I propose Swinstead be appointed." Birket sat down amid loud cheers.

It had been a plucky thing for him to do, and very few would have undertaken so ungracious a task; but, now he had undertaken it, the meeting was evidently with him.
"Everybody here," said Pontifex, "as long as he's in order, has a right to express his opinion without fear.

Two names have now been proposed-- Pledge and Swinstead.

Any more ?" No one broke the silence.
"Then I'll put up Swinstead first.