"Ah, but it will be. If you really take to the work, and put yourself into harness, it will be so. You'll get to feel it as I do. The man who is counted by his colleagues as number one on the Treasury Bench in the English House of Commons, is the first of living men. That's my opinion. I don't know that I ever said it before; but that's my opinion."
"And who is the second;—the purse-bearer to this great man?"
"I say nothing about the second. I don't know that there is any second. I wonder how we shall find Lady Glencora and the boy." They had then arrived at the side entrance to the Castle, and Mr. Grey ran up-stairs to his wife's room to receive her congratulations.
"And you are a Member of Parliament?" she asked.
"They tell me so, but I don't know whether I actually am one till I've taken the oaths."
"I am so happy. There's no position in the world so glorious!"
"It's a pity you are not Mr. Palliser's wife. That's just what he has been saying."
"Oh, John, I am so happy. It is so much more than I have deserved. I hope,—that is, I sometimes think—"
"Think what, dearest?"
"I hope nothing that I have ever said has driven you to it."