'We take a grave step; we fix the eyes of Europe, for the first time, on Grunewald; and in the negotiations of the next three months, mark me, we stand or fall.

It is there, madam, that I shall have to depend upon your counsels,' he added, almost gloomily.

'If I had not seen you at work, if I did not know the fertility of your mind, I own I should tremble for the consequence.

But it is in this field that men must recognise their inability.

All the great negotiators, when they have not been women, have had women at their elbows.