Good!

Gordon.

You are bloodthirsty!

Loveday.

I am only cruel to villains to be kind to the virtuous. But I’m afraid a really sneak-dog nation, like—well, like some we could mention, would have made armaments secretly and piled them up.

Gordon.

No, no, because—(shuffles the papers.) Where is it? There is to be a clause preventing any such hanky-panky.

Loveday.

There is no doubt, that if that is managed properly, however greedy or treacherous any individual nation might be, it simply wouldn’t dare to go to war.

Gordon.