"A four-footman place?"
"Oh! the house is only a means."
He thought upon that. "A means," he asked, "to what? Look here, Marjorie, what do you think you are up to with me and yourself? What do you see me doing—in the years ahead?"
She gave him a silent and thoughtful profile for a second or so.
"At first I suppose you are going on with your researches."
"Well?"
"Then——I must tell you what I think of you, Rag. Politics——"
"Good Lord!"
"You've a sort of power. You could make things noble."
"And then? Office?"