On the next day, early in the afternoon, almost without a fixed purpose, Montague strolled up to Welbeck Street, and found Hetta alone. "Mamma has gone to her publisher's," she said. "She is writing so much now that she is always going there. Who has been elected, Mr. Montague?" Paul knew nothing about the election, and cared very little. At that time, however, the election had not been decided. "I suppose it will make no difference to you whether your chairman be in Parliament or not?" Paul said that Melmotte was no longer a chairman of his. "Are you out of it altogether, Mr. Montague?" Yes;--as far as it lay within his power to be out of it, he was out of it. 
On the next afternoon, almost without a fixed purpose, Paul strolled up to Welbeck Street, and found Hetta alone.
"Mamma has gone to her publisher's," she said. "Who has been elected, Mr. Montague?" Paul knew nothing about the election, and cared very little. He said that Melmotte was no longer his chairman.
"Are you out of it altogether, Mr. Montague?" Yes; as far as it lay within his power, he was out of it. 