Mrs. Quinton Twelves.

Really?

Sir Fletcher Portwood.

You see, my own public position, if I may speak of it——

Mrs. Quinton Twelves.

Oh, yes.

Sir Fletcher Portwood.

[Smiling.] And I happen to know the judge—slightly perhaps; but there it is.

Mrs. Quinton Twelves.

But judges are not influenced by considerations of that kind?