Then I will remember what I represent over here, and I will venture to add in my ambassadorial capacity that I come with an absolute and heartfelt mandate of peace.

My task over here is to secure and ensure it." Caroline flashed a warning glance at her husband.
"How nice of you to be so frank, Prince!" she said.

"The Duke sometimes forgets, in the pursuit of his hobby, that a private dinner table is not a platform.

I insist upon it that we discuss something of more genuine interest." "There isn't a more vital subject in the world," the Duke declared, resigning himself, however, to silence.
"We will speak," the Ambassador suggested, "of the way in which our host brought down those tall pheasants." "You will tell me, perhaps," Seaman suggested to the lady to his right, "how you English women have been able to secure for yourselves so much more liberty than our German wives enjoy ?" "Later on," Stephanie whispered to her host, with a little tremble in her voice, "I have a surprise for you." After dinner, Dominey's guests passed naturally enough to the relaxations which each preferred.

There were two bridge tables, Terniloff and the Cabinet Minister played billiards, and Seaman, with a touch which amazed every one, drew strange music from the yellow keys of the old-fashioned grand piano in the drawing-room.