"Don't be sarcastic, Marie. We have nothing further to do with the bestowal of honours. Why didn't he make everybody a peer or a baronet while he was about it? Lord Finn! I don't see why he shouldn't have been Lord Finn. I'm sure he deserved it for the way in which he attacked Sir Timothy Beeswax."
"I don't think he'd like it."
"They all say so, but I suppose they do like it, or they wouldn't take it. And I'd have made Locock a knight;—Sir James Locock. He'd make a more knightly knight than Sir Timothy. When a man has power he ought to use it. It makes people respect him. Mr. Daubeny made a duke, and people think more of that than anything he did. Is Mr. Finn going to join the new ministry?"
"If you can tell me, Duchess, who is to be the new minister, I can give a guess."
"Mr. Monk."
"Then he certainly will."
"Or Mr. Daubeny."
"Then he certainly won't."
"Or Mr. Gresham."
"That I could not answer."