If war comes, let it come; although I hope it will not come.

As to the use of women--tell me, _why not women ?_ Why anything _else_ but women?
It is only playing life against life; one variant against another.

That is politics, my friend.

I _want_ Pakenham.

So, I must learn what _Pakenham_ wants! Does he want Texas for England, or the Baroness von Ritz _for himself ?_" Ward still sat and looked at him.