A great many of them will be just as surprised as you will be, but they will fight all the same." Seaman, who had kept silence during the last few moments with great difficulty, now took up the Duke's challenge.
"Permit me to assure you, madam," he said, bowing across the table, "that the war with Germany of which the Duke is so afraid will never come.

I speak with some amount of knowledge because I am a German by birth, although naturalised in this country.

I have as many and as dear friends in Berlin as in London, and with the exception of my recent absence in Africa, where I had the pleasure to meet our host, I spent a great part of my time going back and forth between the two capitals.

I have also the honour to be the secretary of a society for the promotion of a better understanding between the citizens of Germany and England." "Rubbish!" the Duke exclaimed.

"The Germans don't want a better understanding.