"What?"

"No, who?"

"Recreation?"

"Yes. Hobby, amusement. Don't you collect cats or keep stamps
or motor-boat or mountebank, I mean mountaineer, or anything?"

"No."

"Never mind. I expect you know Oldham rather well, don't you?"

"Not at all."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

"Why?"

"Because I don't know it either, and I thought- "

"What?"

"Well, you know, we ought to know Oldham- one of us ought to. It
was a Unionist gain last time."

"Are you a Unionist?"

"My dear, you see in me- at least you would see in me, if it were
not so dark- a high Tory."