"I must think.

After all, you are engaged in a conspiracy.

Stenson's Cabinet may not be the strongest on earth, or the most capable, but Stenson himself has carried the burden of this war bravely." "If the terms offered," the Bishop pointed out, "are anything like what we expect, they are better than any which the politicians could ever have mooted, even after years more of bloodshed.

It is my opinion that Stenson will welcome them, and that the country, generally speaking, will be entirely in favour of their acceptance." "Supposing," Julian asked, "that you think them reasonable, that you make your demand to the Prime Minister, and he refuses.

What then ?" "That," Fenn intervened, with the officious air of one who has been left out of the conversation far too long, "is where we come in.