If you send seven names you'll be in a minority in the fifteen, and if you send eight you'll be in a majority.

It doesn't matter to me a bit." "Just like Fullerton.

Always asking riddles that haven't got an answer," said Dangle.
"I wonder how Fisher will manage the treasurership," said Brinkman, who was evidently sore at his defeat.

"I shouldn't have thought accounts were much in his line." "He can't have very hard work doing his own," said Clapperton, laughing, "but that's not his fault, poor beggar.

Only I think it would be much better to have a fellow for treasurer who wasn't in a chronic state of being hard up." "I suppose you mean," said Fullerton, who had a most awkwardly blunt way of putting things, "he'd have less temptation to steal.