“What? Argument?” he cried harshly. He smote a bell. An old and trembling man doddered into the room. He pointed dramatically.

“Remove it,” he ordered.... I judged it best to remove myself.

And as I walked away along the corridor the notes of “Rendle, My Son” floated after me. Only at that distance I could not be quite sure that the name was Rendle.

OLD TORY

Spurn the Liberals: do not love them,

Son o’ mine.

We are very much above them,

Son o’ mine.

But we want to rule the nation;

So, for mere self-preservation,