Yet if you want reason, I can supply that too.

Count Samoval is the intimate friend of the Marquis of Minas, who remains a member of the Government, and who next to the Principal Souza was, and no doubt is, the most bitter opponent of the British policy in Portugal.

Yet Count Samoval, one of the largest landowners in the north, and the nobleman who has perhaps suffered most severely from that policy, represents himself as its most vigorous supporter." Lady O'Moy listened in growing amazement.

Also she was a little shocked.
It seemed to her almost indecent that a young girl should know so much about politics--so much of which she herself, a married woman, and the wife of the adjutant-general, was completely in ignorance.
"Save us, child!" she ejaculated.

"You are so extraordinarily informed." "I have talked to Captain Tremayne," said Sylvia.