Lady Gorgon promised.
"Well, then, since the truth you must know, you yourselves have beenin part the cause of the delay of which you complain. You gave ustwo votes five years ago; you now only give us one. If Sir Davidwere to go up to the Peers, we should lose even that one vote; andwould it be common sense in us to incur such a loss? Mr. Scully,the Liberal, would return another Member of his own way of skinnyking;and as for the Lords, we have, you know, a majority there."