Ask the others." "Do you think it possible that he himself can have been deceived ?" she persisted.
"In what manner ?" "In his own strength--the strength of his own Party," she proceeded eagerly.

"Do you think it possible that the Imperialists have pretended to recognise in him a far greater factor in the situation than he really is?
Have pretended to acquiesce in these terms of peace with the intention of repudiating them when we have once gone too far ?" Fenn seemed for a moment to have shrunk in his chair.

His eyes had fallen before her passionate gaze.

The penholder which he was grasping snapped in his fingers.

Nevertheless, his voice still performed its office.
"My dear Miss Abbeway," he protested, "who or what has been putting these ideas into your head ?" "A veritable chance," she replied, "brought me yesterday afternoon into contact with a man--a neutral--who is supposed to be very intimately acquainted with what goes on in Germany." "What did he tell you ?" Fenn demanded feverishly.
"He told me nothing," she admitted.