It would be so bad for Timothy if it wasn't.

And of course Soames' dear father would feel it very much at his age.

Luckily poor dear Roger had been spared this dreadful anxiety.

And Aunt Juley with a little handkerchief wiped away the large tear trying to climb the permanent pout on her now quite withered left cheek; she was remembering dear Roger, and all his originality, and how he used to stick pins into her when they were little together.

Aunt Hester, with her instinct for avoiding the unpleasant, here chimed in: Did Soames think they would make Mr.Chamberlain Prime Minister at once?
He would settle it all so quickly.