Silverbridge, who at this moment was being
interrogated by Sir Timothy, heard every word of it.
'I was so sorry, Lord Silverbridge,' said Sir Timothy, 'that you
could not accede to our little request.'
'I did not quite see my way,' said Silverbridge, with his eye upon
Isabel.
'So I understood, but I hope that things will make themselves
clearer to you shortly. There is nothing that I desire so much as
the support of young men such as yourself,--the very cream, I may
say, of the whole country. It is to the young conservative
thoughtfulness and the truly British spirit of our springing
aristocracy that I look for that reaction which I am sure will at
last carry us safely over the rocks and shoals of communistic
propensities.'
'I shouldn't wonder if it did,' said Silverbridge. They didn't
think that he was going to remain down there talking politics to
an old humbug like Sir Timothy when the sun and moon, and all the
stars had gone up into the drawing-room! For at that moment
Isabel was making her way to the door.
But Sir Timothy had buttonholed him.
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