"They all say that the Germans are dying to have a go at you fellows." Baring grinned.
"They wouldn't have a dog's chance," he declared.

"That's the only drawback of having so strong a navy.

We don't stand any chance of getting a fight." "You'll have all you can do to keep up, judging by the way they talk in Germany," Norgate observed.
"Are you just home from there ?" Norgate nodded.

"I am at the Embassy in Berlin, or rather I have been," he replied.

"I am just home on six months' leave." "And that's your real impression ?" Baring enquired eagerly.