"I thought all that was to be given up," said Tregear.
"Oh, certainly," said Sprout. "Suppose we go to Mr. Walker first?"
"I'm up to anything," said Lord Silverbridge; "but of course everybody understands that I am a Conservative."
"Oh dear, yes," said Sprugeon.
"We are all aware of that," said Sprout.
"And very glad we've all of us been to hear it," said the landlord.
"Though there are some in the borough who could have wished, my Lord, that you had stuck to the old Palliser politics," said Mr. Du Boung.
"But I haven't stuck to the Palliser politics. Just at present I think that order and all that sort of thing should be maintained."
"Hear, hear!" said the landlord.
"And now, as I have expressed my views generally, I am willing to go anywhere."