"If Streuss comes to me, I shall meet him frankly.

I shall tell him that he has tried to play the burglar and that it must be war.

I shall tell him that the compact is in the hands of the Prime Minister, and that he and his spies had better clear out." She looked at him questioningly.
"Of course, you understand," he added, "there is one thing we can do, and one thing only.

We must send a mission to Russia and another to France, and before the German fleet can pass down the North Sea we must declare war.

It is the only thing left to us--a bold front.
Without that packet we have no casus belli.