CHAPTER THREEFor the rest of the journey they avoided painful topics, and stayed with the safer subject of politics.
“When exactly will the election be?” Rosina asked.
“Probably not for a few months.”
“A few months? As long as that? Surely, if Parliament has been dissolved – ”
“It hasn’t been. Even after he was defeated, Prime Minister Disraeli is still clinging on because there’s a very important bill for Parliamentary reform going through. It extends the vote to men who couldn’t vote before, and it breaks up some of the larger constituencies into smaller ones.”
“Change the constituencies?” she echoed, alarmed. “Yours and Papa’s?”
“As you know, he has East Gradley and I have West Gradley. Now there’ll be a new constituency, South Gradley, formed from a bit of his and a bit of mine.
