And if you find an Englishman who has done wrong ever so long ago to a native, you will expose him?
Adene.
Certainly, if I find any.
Vera.
Take a man who has left it all behind him . . . who was serving his country in some high and difficult post?
Adene.
I shall report anything I think ought to be known to the proper authorities. I am not a police agent nor a spy; but I am a historian, and I do not intend to hide things in order to oblige people!
Vera.
Peace and war the same?