I will admit, if you like, that the Kaiser's attitude may render it advisable for me to be transferred from Berlin.

I do not admit that I am not at once eligible for a position of similar importance in another capital." "No one would doubt it," John Hebblethwaite grumbled, "except those particular fools we have to deal with.

I suppose they didn't see it in the same light." "They did not," Norgate admitted.
"We've a tough proposition to tackle," Hebblethwaite confessed cheerfully, "but I am with you, Norgate, and to my mind one of the pleasures of being possessed of a certain amount of power is to help one's friends when you believe in the justice of their cause.

If you leave things with me, I'll tackle them to-morrow morning." "That's awfully good of you, Hebblethwaite," Norgate declared gratefully, "and just what I expected.

We'll leave that matter altogether just now, if we may.