It is trade, trade, trade and nothing else, the whole of the time, and the men whom we sent to the different Courts to further our commercial interests are not the type to keep us informed of the more subtle and intricate matters which sometimes need adjustment between two countries." "That may be the explanation of all the bad feeling," Maggie admitted, "and you may be right when you say that any practical move against us is almost impossible.

Dad doesn't think so, you know.

He is terribly exercised about the coming of Prince Shan." "I must get him to talk to me," Nigel said.

"As a matter of fact, I don't think that we need fear Asiatic intervention over here.

Prince Shan is too great a diplomatist to risk his country's new prosperity." "Prince Shan," Maggie declared, "is the one man in the world I am longing to meet.