26/26 "But in all such matters, my dear, the great thing is like to like. I have spoken of a young person, merely because I wish you to understand that I can sympathise with others besides those of my own age. But to-night there was no one there at all like myself,--or, as I hope, like you. How such a man can be useful to any government I can't conceive. Happerton was the best, but what had he to say for himself? |