have enough of principle and enough of conscience to restrain him
from doing what he knows to be wrong. But can a shipbuilder
build his ship single-handed, or the watchmaker make his watch
without assistance? On former occasions such as this, I could
say, with little or no help from without, whether I would or
would not undertake the work that was proposed to me, because I
had only a bit of the ship to build, or a wheel of the watch to
make. My own efficacy for my present task would depend entirely
on the co-operation of others, and unfortunately upon that of
some others with whom I have no sympathy, nor they with me.'

'Leave them out,' said the Duchess boldly.

'But they are men who will not be left out, and whose services
the country has a right to expect.'

'Then bring them in, and think no more about it. It is no good
crying for pain that cannot be cured.'

'Co-operation is difficult without community of feeling. I find
myself to be too stubborn-hearted for the place. It was nothing
to me to sit in the same Cabinet with a man I disliked when I had
not put him there myself. But now--. As I have travelled up I
have almost felt that I could not do it! I did not know before
how much I might dislike a man.'

'Who is the one man?'

'Nay;--whoever he be, I will have to be a friend now, and
therefore I will not name him, even to you. But it is not one