You interest us so much on the Continent." Mr.Hebblethwaite bowed and looked as though he would have liked the interest to have been a little more personal.
"You see," Anna explained, as she stood between the two men, "both Austria and Germany, the two countries where I spend most of my time, are almost military ridden.

Our great statesmen, or the men who stand behind them, are all soldiers.

You represent something wholly different.

Your nation is as great and as prosperous as ours, and yet you are a pacifist, are you not, Mr.Hebblethwaite?
You scorn any preparations for war.

You do not believe in it.