Surely you can see and appreciate the danger with which your country is threatened ?" "With regard to political affairs," Mr.Fentolin admitted, "I consider myself unusually well posted--in fact, the study of the diplomatic methods of the various great Powers is rather a hobby of mine." "Yet," Mr.Dunster persisted, "you do not wish this letter delivered to that little conference in The Hague, which you must be aware is now sitting practically to determine the fate of your nation ?" "I do not wish," Mr.Fentolin replied, "I do not intend, that that letter shall be delivered.

Why do you worry about my point of view?
I may have a dozen reasons.

I may believe that it will be good for my country to suffer a little chastisement." "Or you may," Mr.Dunster suggested, glancing keenly at his host, "be the paid agent of some foreign Power." Mr.Fentolin shook his head.
"My means," he pointed out, "should place me above such suspicion.

My income, I really believe, is rather more than fifty thousand pounds a year.

I should not enter into these adventures, which naturally are not entirely dissociated from a certain amount of risk, for the purposes of financial gain." Mr.Dunster was still mystified.
"Granted that you do so from pure love of adventure," he declared, "I still cannot see why you should range yourself on the side of your country's enemies.
"In time," Mr.Fentolin observed, "even that may become clear to you.