"If you will allow me, Duke. My wife has told me that, this morning, which makes me feel that absence from England is requisite for her present comfort. I was with her when you came, and had just promised her that she should go."
"But, Palliser, think of it. If this were a small matter, I would not press you; but a man in your position has public duties. He owes his services to his country. He has no right to go back, if it be possible that he should so do."
"When a man has given his word, it cannot be right that he should go back from that."

"My wife has told me something, this morning, which makes me feel that absence from England is necessary for her present comfort. I have just promised her that she should go."
"But, Palliser, think of it. If this were a small matter, I would not press you; but a man in your position owes his service to his country."
"When a man has given his word, it cannot be right that he should go back from that."
