That was what she was there for.

Mrs.
Phillips, torn between her sense of duty and fear of losing this new happiness, would yield to the child's coaxing.

Often they would be left alone to discuss the nation's needs uninterrupted.

Conscientiously they would apply themselves to the task.

Always to find that, sooner or later, they were looking at one another, in silence.
One day Phillips burst into a curious laugh.