"
"Well done, Mother!" said Alec, and Oliver remarked that
if those were today's ducks they were too good for the
Milburn crowd, a lot.
"I expect she wanted them, too," remarked Stella. "They've
got the only Mr Hesketh staying with them now. Miss
Filkin's in a great state of excitement."
"I guess we can spare them Hesketh," said John Murchison.
"He's a lobster," said Stella with fervour.
"He seems to bring a frost where he goes," continued
Abby's husband, "in politics, anyhow. I hear Lorne wants
to make a present of him to the other side, for use
wherever they'll let him speak longest. Is it true he
began his speech out at Jordanville--'Gentlemen--and
those of you who are not gentlemen'?"
"Could he have meant Mrs Farquharson and Miss Milburn?"
asked Mr Murchison quietly, when the derision subsided;
and they laughed again.
"He told me," said Advena, "that he proposed to convert
Mr Milburn to the imperial policy."
"He'll have his job cut out for him," said her father.
"For my part," Abby told them, "I think the Milburns are
beneath contempt. You don't know exactly what it is, but
there's something ABOUT them--not that we ever come in
contact with them," she continued with dignity. "I believe
they used to be patients of Dr Henry's till he got up in
years, but they don't call in Harry.
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