You go straying all over the world for fun, and annex it generally, so that you can have tiger-shooting in India, and lots of gold to pay for your tiger-shooting in Africa, and fur from Canada for your coats.

But it's all a game; not one man in a thousand in England has any idea of Empire." "Oh, I think you are wrong there," said Michael.

"You believe that only because we don't talk about it.

It's--it's like what we agreed about Parsifal.

We don't talk about it because it is so much part of us." Falbe sat up.
"I deny it; I deny it flatly," he said.