Nothing that he could have said or done would have so deeply impressed me as that.
“You told me there had been no change of plan.”
“There has been none—yet,” he answered. “The final decision has still to be made.”
“I have heard your policy summed up in the one word—assassination.”
“Our policy has always been liable to misinterpretation; against that, in times like these, we cannot guard.”
“I won’t disguise from you that you have alarmed me greatly.”
“Is there a man in the country at the present time who does not view the future with alarm? The issues are too fateful for all classes, Mr. Bergwyn. But if you are speaking in contemplation of any sort of financial business, I would advise you strongly to hold your hand and wait.”
“How long?”
“Until the new Government is established, the new King crowned and the country once more settled.”
“The new King?” I asked quickly.