"Perhaps you can tell me what we did talk about ?" "I believe I almost could," was the calm reply.

"In any case, I think I see the situation as it exists.

Mademoiselle Karetsky is a wonderful woman.

She has a great, open mind.

To a certain extent, of course, she has seen things from the point of view of Paul Matinsky, Immelan, and that little coterie of Russo-Germans who see a future for both countries only in an alliance of the old-fashioned order.