You have perhaps lost some post.

Well, there are others.

I should not, I think, be far away from the truth, sir, if I were to surmise that you had held some sort of an official position ?" "Perhaps," Norgate assented.
"That is interesting," Herr Selingman continued.

"Now with the English of commerce I talk often, and I know their views of me and my country.

But sometimes I have fancied that among your official classes those who are ever so slightly employed in Government service, there is--I do not love the word, but I must use it--a distrust of Germany and her peace-loving propensities." "I have met many people," Norgate admitted, "who do not look upon Germany as a lover of peace." "They should come and travel here," Herr Selingman insisted eagerly.
"Look out of the windows.