When he joined them, they observed that he had not the gold key which is the badge of the Lord Chamberlain, and asked where it was.

"At Kensington," answered Sunderland.

They found that he had tendered his resignation, and that it had been, after a long struggle, accepted.
They blamed his haste, and told him that, since he had summoned them to advise him on that day, he might at least have waited till the morrow.
"To morrow," he exclaimed, "would have ruined me.

To night has saved me." Meanwhile, both the disciples of Somers and the disciples of Trenchard were grumbling at Harley's resolution.

The disciples of Somers maintained that, if it was right to have an army at all, it must be right to have an efficient army.