my own mind by naming them even to you.'

'You'll bring in Mr Finn, Plantagenet?'

'Mr Finn!'

'Yes,--Phineas Finn,--the man who was tried.'

'My dear Cora, we haven't come down to that yet. We need not at
any rate trouble ourselves about the small fishes till we are
sure that we can get the big fishes to join us.'

'I don't know why he should be a small fish. No man has done
better than he has; and if you want a man to stick to you--'

'I don't want a man to stick to me. I want a man to stick to his
country.'

'You were talking about sympathy.'

'Well, yes;--I was. But do not name anyone else just at
present. The Duke will be here soon, and I would be alone till
he comes.'

'There is one thing more I want to say, Plantagenet.'

'What is it?'

'One favour I want to ask.'