We shall play with England as a cat with a mouse, and when the time comes....

Well, perhaps that will do," the Prince concluded, smiling.
Anna was silent for several moments.
"I am a woman, you know," she said simply, "and this sounds, in a way, terrible.

Yet for months I have felt it coming." "There is nothing terrible about it," the Prince replied, "if you keep the great principles of progress always before you.

If a million or so of lives are sacrificed, the great Germany of the future, gathering under her wings the peoples of the world, will raise them to a pitch of culture and contentment and happiness which will more than atone for the sacrifices of to-day.

It is, after all, the future to which we must look." A telephone bell rang at the Prince's elbow.