And there's no doubt about its being instructive.

I get glimpses of the way in which great governments deal with one another, in ways that our isolated, and, therefore, safe government seldom has any experience of.

For instance, one of the Lords of the Admiralty told me the other night that he never gets out of telephone reach of the office--not even half an hour.

"The Admiralty," said he, "never sleeps." He has a telephone by his bed which he can hear at any moment in the night.

I don't believe that they really expect the German fleet to attack them any day or night.