But it's so difficult.
I assure you I go out of my way; talk to the most outrageous people, deny the very possibility of Mr.Churchill's being in any way implicated.

One knows that it's impossible, but what can one do?
I have said again and again--to people like grocers' wives; even to the grocers, for that matter--that Mr.Churchill is a statesman, and that if he insists that this odious man's railway must go through, it is in the interests of the country that it should.

I tell them...." She paused for a minute to take breath and then went on: "I was speaking to a man of that class only this morning, rather an intelligent man and quite nice--I was saying, 'Don't you see, my dear Mr.Tull, that it is a question of international politics.

If the grand duke does not get the money for his railway, the grand duke will be turned out of his--what is it--principality?
And that would be most dangerous--in the present condition of affairs over there, and besides....' The man listened very respectfully, but I could see that he was not convinced.

I buckled to again...." "'And besides,' I said, 'there is the question of Greenland itself.