What do people say about me--honestly, I mean?
Speak with your face to the light." "They call you a faddist and a scaremonger," Nigel confessed, "yet there are one or two, especially at the St.Philip's Club, diplomatists and ambassadors whose place in the world has passed away, who think and believe differently.

You know, sir, that I am amongst them." Lord Dorminster nodded kindly.
"Well," he said, "I fancy I am about to prove myself.

Seven years ago, it was," he went on reminiscently, "when the new National Party came into supreme power.

You know one of their first battle cries--'Down with all secret treaties! Down with all secret diplomacy! Let nothing exist but an honest commercial understanding between the different countries of the world!' How Germany and Russia howled with joy! In place of an English statesman with his country's broad interests at heart, we have in Berlin and Petrograd half a dozen representatives of the great industries, whose object, in their own words, is, I believe, to develop friendly commercialism and a feeling of brotherhood between the nations.
Not only our ambassadors but our secret service were swept clean out of existence.

I remember going to Broadley, the day he was appointed Foreign Minister, and I asked him a simple question.