“I can see you will take some taming,” he said, as he handed her into the car. “My weighty and important position evidently does not impress you in the least.”
“Of course not, as you’re a Liberal. They have so few really good men, they have to take anything they can get. Back up the Budget and the Chancellor, and exhibit a colossal amount of impudence, and there you are!”
“Well, there isn’t much to boast of in the way of men on the Conservative side, is there? Chiefly a collection of cousins, and second-cousins, and cousins by marriage, shoved in by a few interfering old aunts. You don’t need me to tell an enlightened young woman like you that even impudence might serve the country better than cousin-ship.”
“I wonder sometimes if any of you honestly put the country first at any time; or whether it is just a popular name for a very big ‘me’?”
“You are such a little sceptic. Do you always credit people with self-interested motives?”
“I don’t know that I do; but if you are a city-worker it is a fairly safe basis to work upon, until you can find proof that you are wrong.”
He looked down at her with amusement.
“What a wise little head it is! Do you know, I don’t think I ever met any one quite like you before,”
“What you have missed!” was the gay rejoinder, and they both laughed.
“I suppose I mustn’t take you home?” as they neared Piccadilly. “Brother Dudley might see us?”