The nurse smiled. "I see that you are used to having your own way," she said.
"Is it not natural that I should wish to know what has happened in the world? Tell me. The Archduke Franz was killed. Did they discover a plot?"
"A plot? Yes. The boy Prinzep was employed by the Serbians."
"He confessed?"
"Not to that—but it is obvious."
"And what has happened?"
She examined him intently, aware now of what she herself had long suspected, that this patient was no ordinary kind of man. His German had a slight accent, but whether he came from central Europe or elsewhere she could not decide.
"Austria Hungary is on the eve of great events. A week or more ago Austria Hungary sent an ultimatum to the Serbian government, to which an unsatisfactory reply was received. The Austro-Hungarian minister has left Belgrade, and war has been declared upon Serbia."
"War! and Russia?"
"Russia, France and Germany have mobilized."