"We are not ready for it." "The country is," Fenn declared firmly.

"We are." "So your ambassador has told me," was the calm reply.

"In point of numbers you may be said, perhaps, to represent the nation.

In point of intellect, of knowledge--of inner knowledge, mind--I claim that I represent it.

I tell you that a peace now, even on the terms which your Socialist allies in Germany have suggested, would be for us a peace of dishonour." "Will you tell us why ?" the Bishop begged.
"Because it is not the peace we promised our dead or our living heroes," Mr.Stenson said slowly.