Dodo had not noticed that he had left the cricket-page.
"Has Nottinghamshire got out leg before?" she asked vaguely.
"No. But the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife have been murdered at Serajevo."
Dodo rapidly considered whether this made any difference to her, and decided that it did not matter as much as the letter she was reading.
"I don't think I ever heard of him," she said. "And where's Serajevo?"
"In Servia or one of those places," said Jack. "The Archduke was the heir to the Austrian throne."
Dodo put down her letter.
"Oh, poor man!" she said. "How horrid to be killed, if you were going to be an Emperor! What makes you frown, Jack? Did you know him?"
"No. But there is always trouble in those states. Some day the trouble will spread."