"Me? Stuff!"
"You—and not stuff, but 'Education' will be your natural theme. Indeed, they have so engineered it that the party chiefs expect from you a defence of their dropping of the Educational Bill."
"What!"
"Yes, and probably your nomination will come before the speech and confirmation after."
Bles walked the floor excitedly for a while and then sat down and smiled.
"It was a shrewd move," he said; "but I think I thank them for it."
"I don't. But still,
"''T is the sport to see the engineer hoist
by his own petar.'"
Bles mused and she watched him covertly. Suddenly she leaned over.