"I don't think the text alone will do you any good."
"And probably you forget it."
"No, I don't, my dear. How do you do, Lord Silverbridge?"
"He is a Conservative, Miss Cass."
"Of course he is. I am quite sure that a young nobleman of so much taste and intellect would take the better side."
"You forget that all you are saying is against my father and my family, Miss Cassewary."
"I dare say it was different when your father was a young man. And your father, too, was, not very long since, at the head of a government which contained many Conservatives. I don't look upon your father as a Radical, though perhaps I should not be justified in calling him a Conservative."
"Well; certainly not, I think."
"But now it is necessary that all noblemen in England should rally to the defence of their order." Miss Cassewary was a great politician, and was one of those who are always foreseeing the ruin of their country. "My dear, I will go and take my bonnet off. Perhaps you will have tea when I come down."
"Don't you go," said Lady Mabel, when Silverbridge got up to take his departure.