Only, I wish the path could be made a little plainer for me--unless for some reason it's necessary for you to keep me in the dark.

The word 'treaty' I heard for the first time from you.

I didn't know what I was bringing you, except that it was a document of international importance, and that you'd been helping the British Foreign Secretary--perhaps Great Britain as a Power--in some ticklish manoeuvre of high politics.

He said that, so far as he was concerned, you might tell me more if you liked.

He left it to you.