And now, just when England needs peace most, when affairs on the Continent are so threatening and every one connected with the Government of the country is passing through a time of the gravest anxiety, you intend, they say, to start a campaign here.

You say that you love the truth.

Answer me this question truthfully, then.

Do you believe that you are justified ?" He had listened to her at first with a slight, tolerant smile upon his lips, a smile which faded gradually away.

He was sombre, almost stern, when she had finished.