There is really no reason why Russia or any other country should be dragged into it.

She is the monkey pulling the chestnuts out of the fire for her most dangerous rival." "Matinsky might be brought to think that way," Chalmers observed, "but they say half the members of his Cabinet are under German influence." "If Matinsky believed that," Nigel declared, "he is quite strong enough to clear them all out and make a fresh start." "In the meantime," Maggie interposed, "I should like to know in what way you propose to use poor little me?
I am not to go to Germany, the man whom I at one time seriously thought of marrying is told off to engage the attentions of another woman, Mr.Jesson here is going to Kroten, and he doesn't show the slightest inclination to take me with him.

Am I to sit here and do nothing ?" "There remains for you the third enterprise," Jesson replied, "one in which, so far as I can see," he continued, with a smile, "you have not the faintest chance of success." "Tell me what it is, at least ?" she begged.
"The conversion of Prince Shan." Maggie made a little grimace.
"Aren't you trying me a little high ?" she murmured.
"Very high indeed," Jesson acknowledged.

"Prince Shan, for all his wonderful statesmanship and his grip upon world affairs, is reputed to be almost an anchorite in his daily life.

No woman has ever yet been able to boast of having exercised the slightest influence over him.