Her companion, however, waited for her answer.
"In a way," she acknowledged, "I find something magnificent in your wonderfully conceived plans for vengeance, and in the spirit which has evolved and kept them alive through all these years.

Then, on the other hand, I look at home, and I ask myself whether you do not make what they would call over here a cat's-paw of my country." "Ours is the most natural and most beneficial of all possible alliances," Immelan insisted.

"Germany and Russia, hand in hand, can dominate the world." "I am not sure that it is an equal bargain, though, which you seek to drive with us," she said.

"Germany aims, of course, at world power, but you are still fettered by the terms of that Treaty.

You cannot build a great fleet of warships or aeroplanes; you cannot train great armies; you cannot lay up for yourselves all the store that is necessary for a successful war.