Let others handle such, but not that task for him! "Now you ask questions whose answers lie entirely beyond my power," he replied easily.

"You must remember that I am not of this party, let alone this administration.

My own day in politics has past, and I must seek seclusion, modestly.

I own that the mission to Europe, to examine in a wholly non-partisan way, the working out there of this revolutionary idea--the testing on the soil of monarchies of the principle of democratic government--has a great appeal to me; and I fancied it would offer appeal also to yourself.
But if--" "All life is chance, is it not?
But in your belief, does the right man always win ?" He rose, smiling, inscrutable once more, astute and suave politician again, and passing about the table he bowed over her hand to kiss it.
"My dear Countess," he said, "my dear girl, all I can say is that in the very limited experience I can claim in such matters, the victor usually is the right man.

But I find you here, alone, intent on visionary plans which never can be carried out, undertaking a labor naturally foreign to a woman's methods of life, alien to her usual ideas of happiness.