But a fortnight has passed now, and still she makes no sign.

I feel sure that something is being arranged.

Dear me, I quite forgot, Tony asked me not to talk about it.

But it doesn't matter with you." "But what do you mean by something being arranged ?" asked Michael.
She looked round as if to assure herself that she and Michael were alone.
"I mean this: that Austria is being persuaded to make some outrageous demand, some demand that no independent country could possibly grant." "But who is persuading her ?" asked Michael.
"My dear, you--like all the rest of England--are fast asleep.

Who but Germany, and that dangerous monomaniac who rules Germany?
She has long been wanting war, and she has only been delaying the dawning of Der Tag, till all her preparations were complete, and she was ready to hurl her armies, and her fleet too, east and west and north.