These things are all on the fringe of your real mission.

That, I believe, our admirable friend Seaman has already confided to you.

It is to seek the friendship, if possible the intimacy, of Prince Terniloff." The Kaiser paused, and once more his eyes wandered to the landscape which rolled away from the plate-glass windows of the car.

They were certainly not the eyes of a dreamer, and yet in those moments they seemed filled with brooding pictures.
"The Princess has already received me graciously," Dominey confided.
"Terniloff is the dove of peace," the Kaiser pronounced.

"He carries the sprig of olive in his mouth.