He hasn't won his case yet.

He has only staved off the great attack.

It's coming--soon." "What is the great attack?
What has the Government, or the Foreign Office, done or left undone ?" "Well, my dear--" Suddenly Lord Windlehurst remembered himself, stopped, put up his eyeglass, and with great interest seemed to watch a gay group of people opposite; for the subject of attack was Egypt and the Government's conduct in not helping David, in view not alone of his present danger, but of the position of England in the country, on which depended the security of her highway to the East.

Windlehurst was a good actor, and he had broken off his words as though the group he was now watching had suddenly claimed his attention.

"Well, well, Duchess," he said reflectively, "I see a new nine days' wonder yonder." Then, in response to a reminder from Hylda, he continued: "Ah, yes, the attack! Oh, Persia--Persia, and our feeble diplomacy, my dear lady, though you mustn't take that as my opinion, opponent as I am.