“You are always doing good, Lotys!” he said, with a slight tremor in his voice; “There is no day in your life without its record of help to the helpless!”
She shook her head deprecatingly, and went on caressing and soothing the tiny babe in silence.
After a pause, he spoke again.
“I have come to you, Lotys, to ask you many things!”
She looked up with a little smile.
“Do you need advice, Sergius? Nay, surely not!—you have passed beyond it—you are a great man!”
He moved impatiently.
“Great? What do you mean? I am Deputy for the city, it is true—but that is not the height of my ambition; it is only a step towards it.”
“To what do you aspire?” she queried. “A place in the Ministry? You will get that if you wait long enough! And then—will you be satisfied?”
“No—I shall never be satisfied—never till—”