Then I was second attache at Paris, and finally, as you see, here." "And your people--they are English, of course ?" "Naturally," he answered.

"My mother died when I was quite young, and my father when I was at Eton.

I have an estate in Hampshire which seems to get on very well without me." "And you really care about your profession?
You have the real feeling for diplomacy ?" "I think there is nothing else like it in the world," he assured her.
"You may well say that," she agreed enthusiastically.

"I think you might almost add that there has been no time in the history of Europe so fraught with possibilities, so fascinating to study, as the present." He looked at her keenly.

It is the first instinct of a young diplomatist to draw in his horns when a beautiful young woman confesses herself interested in his profession.
"You, too, think of these things, then ?" he remarked.
She shrugged her shoulders.
"But naturally! What is there to do for a woman but think?
We cannot act, or rather, if we do, it is in a very insignificant way.