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CHAPTER 3

The Earl of M's Orp stood in the doorway of the Senior Conservative Clubs, Vast Dining

Room, and beamed with a vague sweetness on the 200 or so Senior Conservatives, who, with

much clattering of knives and forks, were keeping body and soul together by means of the

coffee room luncheon.

He might have been posing for a statue of immobility.

His pale blue eyes shone with a friendly light through their protecting glasses.

The smile of a man at peace, with all men, curved his weak mouth.

His bald head, reflecting the sunlight, seemed almost to wear a halo.

Nobody appeared to notice him.

He so seldom came to London these days that he was practically a stranger in the club.

And in any case, your Senior Conservative, when at lunch, has little leisure for observing

anything not immediately on the table in front of him.

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