One cannot tell what might happen.

Do you greatly care?
Wasn't it you who, in one of your speeches, pointed out that a war in your country would be welcome?
That the class who would suffer would be the class who are your great oppressors--the manufacturers, the middle classes--and that with their downfall the working man would struggle upwards?
Do you believe, Mr.
Maraton, that a war would hurt your own people ?" "My own ideas," Maraton replied, "are in a state of transition.
However, your offer is declined." "Declined without conditions ?" Mr.Beldeman enquired, taking up his hat.
"For the present it is declined without conditions.

I will be quite frank with you.

Your offer doesn't shock me as it might do if I were a right-feeling Imperialist of the proper Jingo type.

I believe that a week ago I should have considered it very seriously indeed.