wedgecroft. [With an incredulous grin.] You're not going back to extending old-age pensions after turning the unfortunate Liberals out on it, are you?
trebell. No, no . . none of your half crown measures. They can wait to round off their solution of that till they've the courage to make one big bite of it.
wedgecroft. We shan't see the day.
trebell. [Lifting the subject off its feet.] Not if I come out of the cabinet and preach revolution?
wedgecroft. Or will they make a Tory of you?
trebell. [Acknowledging that stroke with a return grin.] It'll be said they have when the bill is out.
wedgecroft. It's said so already.
trebell. Who knows a radical bill when he sees it!
wedgecroft. I'm not pleased you have to be running a tilt against the party system. [He becomes a little dubious.] My friend . . it's a nasty windmill. Oh, you've not seen that article in the Nation on Politics and Society . . it's written at Mrs. Farrant and Lady Lurgashall and that set. They hint that the Tories would never have had you if it hadn't been for this bad habit of opposite party men meeting each other.