He went off after the visit of the British fleet to Kiel.

Who knows whether before he gets back, things may have gone too far?
Can't you see that I must go?
Wouldn't you go if you were me?
Suppose you were in Germany now, wouldn't you hurry home ?" Michael was silent, and Hermann spoke again.
"And if there is trouble with Russia, France, I take it, is bound to join her.

And if France joins her, what will England do ?" The great shadow of the approaching storm fell over Michael, even as outside the sultry stillness of the morning grew darker.
"Ah, you think that ?" asked Michael.
Hermann put his hand on Michael's shoulder.
"Mike, you're the best friend I have," he said, "and soon, please God, you are going to marry the girl who is everything else in the world to me.

You two make up my world really--you two and my mother, anyhow.
No other individual counts, or is in the same class.

You know that, I expect.