"You had better come over to us."
"Well, there is always that to think of, isn't there? You can't deny you want all the new blood you can get!"
"If you only understood your moment and your chance," she said quickly, "you would make the opportunity and do it at once."
He looked at her aggressively.
"How easy it comes to you Tories to rat!" he said.
"Thank you! it only means that we are the party of common sense. Well, I have been talking to your Miss Boyce."
He started.
"Where?"
"At Lady Winterbourne's. Aldous Raeburn was there. Your beautiful Socialist was very interesting—and rather surprising. She talked of the advantages of wealth; said she had been converted—by living among the poor—had changed her mind, in fact, on many things. We were all much edified—including Mr. Raeburn. How long do you suppose that business will remain 'off'? To my mind I never saw a young woman more eager to undo a mistake." Then she added slowly, "The accounts of Lord Maxwell get more and more unsatisfactory."
Wharton stared at her with sparkling eyes. "How little you know her!" he said, not without a tone of contempt.