"Your opinion of me is such that I hesitate to proceed at all in the matter which I desired to discuss with you." "That," Hunterleys replied, "is entirely for you to decide.

I am perfectly willing to listen to anything you have to say--all the more ready because now there can be no possibility of any misunderstanding between us." "Very well," Mr.Draconmeyer assented, "I will proceed.

After all, I am not sure that the personal element enters into what I was about to say.
I was going to propose not exactly an alliance--that, of course, would not be possible--but I was certainly going to suggest that you and I might be of some service to one another." "In what way ?" "I call myself an Englishman," Mr.Draconmeyer went on.

"I have made large sums of money in England, I have grown to love England and English ways.

Yet I came, as you know, from Berlin.