Will you promise me not to go in league with _her_----" "I'll agree to that unconditionally!" King assured him with a dry smile.
"-- not to try to learn the secret of the science----" "Why not ?" "Because if you _should_ try I could never save your lives." "Well, what else ?" "Will you take oath never to disclose the whereabouts of the entrance to the caverns in which you were allowed to see the sciences ?" "I shall have to think that over." "Furthermore, will you promise to take whatever means is pointed out to you of helping India to independence ?" "What do you mean by independence ?" "Self-government." "I've been working for that ever since I cut my eye-teeth," answered King.

"So has every other British officer and civil servant who has any sense of public duty." "Will you continue to work for it, and employ the means that shall be pointed out to you ?" "Yes is the answer to the first part.

Can't answer the second part until I've studied the means." "Will you join me in preventing that princess from throwing the world into fresh confusion ?" "Dunno about joining you.

It's part of my business to prevent her little game," King answered.
"She has proven herself almost too clever, even for us," said the Mahatma.

"She spied on us, and she hid so many witnesses behind a wall pierced with holes that it would be impossible for us to make sure of destroying all of them.