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He said you would hate telling me, so he did. You mustn't mind, dear, you mustn't mind. Oh, you didn't think it would make any difference to me, dear, did you? What do I care? Mrs. Puttock may care, and Lady Eynesford, and all the rest, but what do I care if I have you and him?" "Me and him, Daisy?" "Yes," she answered, smiling boldly.
Shorn of him, as it had been shorn of Puttock, the Government would stand revealed as the organ and expression of the Labour Party and nothing else, and Perry and Kilshaw doubted not that six or eight members of the House would be found to enter the "cave," if Coxon showed them the way. Then, "Why then," said Mr. Kilshaw to his conscience, "we need not use that brute Benham at all!
"The appointment was made this morning," replied Medland, somewhat surprised to see him in the lobby. "I am here with Mr. Puttock," said Benham, answering his look, "and Mr. Kilshaw." Medland smiled. "The appointment is made all the same," he remarked. Benham bowed and returned to his friends. The Premier, seeing Eleanor and Alicia in front of him, overtook and joined them.
And afterwards the Governor took Daisy for a stroll through the tents, and, having thus done his duty handsomely, handed her over to Dick; but she and Dick found the tents stuffy and crowded, and sat down under the trees and enjoyed themselves very much, until Mr. Puttock espied them and came up to them, accompanied by a friend.
"As long as my constituents approve of my action, I am content. But I am grieved not to be able to help you." "But, in spite of present differences, surely your good word would carry weight. My name is, I believe, already before the Premier, and if it was backed by your support " "Let me recommend you," said Puttock sourly, "to try to obtain Mr. Norburn's good word.
I doubt if Medland will satisfy Puttock and his people over that." "Oh, I expect he will," said the Chief Justice.
The man seemed to be giving explanations or detailing arrangements, and Medland from time to time nodded assent. "Who's that with him?" asked Puttock. The desired information came from a young fellow in the Government service. "I know him," he said, "because he applied to me for a certificate of naturalisation a month or two ago.
It was perhaps too early to talk of absolute dissensions, but it was tolerably well known that a struggle was likely to occur in the Cabinet, nominally on the question of the relative priority to be given to different measures, more truly perhaps on the issue whether the advanced labour party, represented by Norburn, or the Radicals of the older type, headed by Puttock and Jewell, were to control the policy of the Premier and the Government.
"I don't know, my dear. There's some gossip, I believe," said Lord Eynesford discreetly. "Do you know what Mrs. Puttock said to Eleanor? Eleanor ought to have told me at once, but she only did last night. Eleanor asked something about his wife, and Mrs. Puttock said, 'For my part, I don't believe he ever had a wife." Lady Eynesford repeated the all-important sentence with scrupulous accuracy.
At last he decided, "Puttock is no longer good for me," and his brave wife approving, and even inciting, he resolved to burn his ships and seek his fortune sink or swim in the metropolis. Carlyle, for once taking the initiative of practical trouble, went in advance on a house-hunt to London, and by advice of Leigh Hunt fixed on the now famous house in Chelsea near the Thames.