His visitor shook his head.
"I wouldn't adopt that attitude, if I were you," he said calmly.

"You know why.

If you are really curious about my nationality, there is no harm in telling you that I am an American citizen, that I have held for three years the post of American chaplain at Brussels.

Better let me say what I have come to say." Lord Romsey hesitated.

His natural propensity for temporising asserted itself and his finger left the bell.