"A good King!"
"A glorious King and most noble man."
"You talk like a Jacobite."
"I am a Jacobite."
McCann took his pipe out of his mouth. "What do you talk like that for? You used to be a socialist."
"I am still a socialist."
"Are you bedevilled with Wentworth's theory that a man can be both a socialist and a royalist?"
"Certainly."
"How do you justify such nonsense?"
"By regarding both sides of the shield."