But I wished to caution you as a friend that your
eyes and ears should be more under your command."
"You will go to Saulsby?" Violet said to Lord Chiltern.
"I cannot possibly tell as yet," said he, frowning.
"Then I can tell you that you ought to go. I do not care a bit for
your frowns. What does the fifth commandment say?"
"If you have no better arguments than the commandments, Violet--"
"There can be none better. Do you mean to say that the commandments
are nothing to you?"
"I mean to say that I shan't go to Saulsby because I am told in the
twentieth chapter of Exodus to honour my father and mother,--and that
I shouldn't believe anybody who told me that he did anything because
of the commandments."
"Oh, Lord Chiltern!"
"People are so prejudiced and so used to humbug that for the most
part they do not in the least know their own motives for what they
do. I will go to Saulsby to-morrow,--for a reward."
"For what reward?" said Violet, blushing.
"For the only one in the world that could tempt me to do anything."
"You should go for the sake of duty. I should not even care to see
you go, much as I long for it, if that feeling did not take you
there."
It was arranged that Phineas and Lord Chiltern were to leave Matching
together.
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