"No," said Jeffrey; "I'm going to study."
"To do what?" said Lady Glencora.
"To study;—or rather I shall spend to-day in sitting down and considering what I will study. My cousin has just been telling me that I ought to do something."
"So you ought," said Iphigenia energetically from her writing-desk.
"But he didn't seem to have any clear opinion what it ought to be. You see there can't be two Chancellors of the Exchequer at the same time. Mrs. Sparkes, what ought a young man like me to set about doing?"
"Go into Parliament, I should say," said Mrs. Sparkes.
"Ah, yes; exactly. He had some notion of that kind, too, but he didn't name any particular place. I think I'll try the City of London. They've four there, and of course the chance of getting in would thereby be doubled."
"I thought that commercial men were generally preferred in the City," said the Duchess, taking a strong and good-natured interest in the matter.
"Mr. Palliser means to make a fortune in trade as a preliminary," said Mrs. Sparkes.
"I don't think he meant anything of the kind," said the Duchess.