I take it that it is so with you ?" "Entirely," Julian acquiesced.

"To be frank with you," he added, "my doubts are not so much concerning the terms of peace themselves as the power of the German democracy to enforce them." "We have relied a good deal," the Bishop admitted, "upon reports from neutrals." Julian smiled a little grimly.
"We have wasted a good many epithets criticising German diplomacy," he observed, "but she seems to know how to hold most of the neutrals in the hollow of her hand.

You know what that Frenchman said?
'Scratch a neutral and you find a German propaganda agent!'" The Bishop led the way upstairs.

Outside the door of Julian's room, he laid his hand affectionately upon the young man's shoulder.
"My godson," he said, "as yet we have scarcely spoken of this great surprise which you have given us--of Paul Fiske.

All that I shall say now is this.