"Not unless you have some."
"By-and-by—"
"No, now."
So the two friends drew in their chairs.
"I have been thinking," said Lord Evelyn—with a slight flush, for he was telling a lie—"I have been thinking for some time back I should like to go to America for a year or two. There are some political phases I should like to study."
Brand looked at him.
"You never thought of it before to-night. But it is like you to think of it now."
"Oh, I assure you," said the other, hastily, "there are points of great interest in the political life of America that one could only properly study on the spot—hearing the various opinions, don't you know—and seeing how the things practically work. I should have gone long before now, but that I dreaded the passage across. When do you go?"
"It is not settled yet."
"What line shall you go by?"