“He is a firebrand,” she said. “I read that book of his against War—most inflammatory. Aimed at Grant-and Rosenstern, chiefly. I've just seen, one of the results, outside my own gates. A mob of anti-War agitators.”
Lord Valleys controlled a yawn.
“Really? I'd no idea Courtier had any influence.”
“He is dangerous. Most idealists are negligible-his book was clever.”
“I wish to goodness we could see the last of these scares, they only make both countries look foolish,” muttered Lord Valleys.
Lady Casterley raised her glass, full of a bloody red wine. “The war would save us,” she said.
“War is no joke.”
“It would be the beginning of a better state of things.”
“You think so?”
“We should get the lead again as a nation, and Democracy would be put back fifty years.”