But in politics Ireland has no secrets.
All her cards are on the table, decipherable at the first glance.

Her political demand combines the lucidity of an invoice with the axiomatic rectitude of the Ten Commandments.

There is no doubt about what she wants, and none about why she ought to have it.

In that sense the case for Home Rule is made, and this book, having justified its title, ought to come to an end.

But convention prescribes that about the nude contour of principles there should be cast a certain drapery of details, and such conventions are better obeyed.
Where we are to begin is another matter.