It must be so, as there is, as it happens, none higher.

But your position, should it come to pass that your husband is the head of the Government, will be too high.

I may say that in no condition should I wish my wife to be subject to other restraint than that which is common to all married women.

I should not choose that she should have any duties unconnected with our joint family and home.
But as First Minister of the Crown I would altogether object to her holding an office believed to be at my disposal." She looked at him with her large eyes wide open, and then left him without a word.

She had no other way of showing her displeasure, for she knew that when he spoke as he had spoken now all argument was unavailing.
The Duke remained an hour alone before he was joined by the other Duke, during which he did not for a moment apply his mind to the subject which might be thought to be most prominent in his thoughts,--the filling up, namely, of a list of his new government.
All that he could do in that direction without further assistance had been already done very easily.