You know what happened.

We have lived through many rumours and escaped, more narrowly than most people realise, a great many dangers, but there is every indication this time that the end is really coming." "And what will the end be ?" Hamel enquired eagerly.
Kinsley shrugged his shoulders and paused while their glasses were filled with wine.
"It will be in the nature of a diplomatic coup," he said presently.

"Of that much I feel sure.

England will be forced into such a position that she will have no alternative left but to declare war.

That, of course, will be the end of us.