I wonder what we shall be like when we wake.

Shall we find ourselves already fettered when we wake, or will there be one moment, just one moment, in which we can spring up?
At any rate, hitherto, the English have always been at their best, not their worst, in desperate positions.

They hate exciting themselves, and refuse to do it until the crisis is actually on them.

But then they become disconcertingly serious and cool-headed." "And you think the Emperor--" began Michael.
"I think the Emperor is the hardest worker in all Germany," said Barbara.

"I believe he is trying (and admirably succeeding) to make us trust his professions of friendship.