And what a busy, big man the Lord Great Chamberlain would be then!
But he would still be called Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, and the Most Puissant Over-lord of the Imperial Plutocracy would still be called President of the United States. And so nobody would in the least mind. If the waffle is named “Hot Waffle,” only a carping, croaking pessimist notes that it is stone cold.
Such are the surface indications. But surface indications are not infallible; they have been known to be unimportant and wholly misleading.
CHAPTER VIII
AND EUROPE LAUGHS
An attaché of one of the Continental Embassies to the King of England was dining at the Carlton with an American, an old friend of his. The room was filled with English and Americans. Almost all the English were men and women of title or rank, or both. Almost all the Americans were well known both at home and abroad because of their wealth, their fondness for display, and their intimacies and relationships by marriage with the aristocratic caste of Europe.
“You Americans are popular here,” said the diplomat.
“Yes,” assented the American.
“And on the Continent also,” said the diplomat.
“Yes,” replied the American. “How the German Emperor does love us—he is almost as enthusiastic about us as is King Edward.”