Would you like to hear more ?" "But I know nothing about crockery!" "Would you like to hear more ?" Selingman repeated.
"I think I should." "Very well, then," Selingman proceeded.

"Tomorrow we will talk of it.
There are some ways in which you might be very useful, useful at the same time to your country and to ours.

Your position might be somewhat peculiar, but that you would be prepared for a short time to tolerate." "Peculiar in what respect ?" Norgate asked.
Selingman held his glass of yellow wine up to the light and criticised it for a moment.

He set it down empty.
"Peculiar," he explained, "inasmuch as you might seem to be working with Germany, whereas you were really England's best friend.

But let us leave these details until to-morrow.