Stonor looked up, and, to Jean's obvious relief, refrained from snubbing the irrepressible Farnborough.
'I don't know what they say——' began Stonor.
'Oh, I do!' Farnborough interrupted. 'They're not for anybody. They're simply agin the Government.'
'Whatever they say, they're all Socialists.' Lord John gave a snort.
'No,' said Farnborough, with cool audacity. 'It only looks like that.'
Jean turned quite pink with anxiety. She, and all who knew him well, had seen Stonor crush the cocksure and the unwary with an awful effectualness. But Farnborough, with the courage of enthusiasm—enthusiasm for himself and his own future—went stoutly on.
'There are Liberals and even Unionists among 'em. And they do manage to hold the balance pretty even. I go and hear them, you see!'
'And speaking from the height of your advantage,' although Stonor was slightly satirical, he was exercising an exceptional forbearance, 'do you mean to tell me they are not more in sympathy with the Labour party than with any other?'
'If they are, it's not because the Suffragists are all for Socialism. But because the Labour party is the only one that puts Women's Suffrage in the forefront of its programme.'