“Katherine, sit down. I want to talk calmly with you.”
“Calmly! Calmly! Yes, that is the word. It is easy for you to be calm when you don’t care. But I care, and I cannot be calm.”
“What do you wish to do, Katherine?”
“What can I do? I am a pauper and a dependent, but one thing I am determined to do, and that is to go and live in my father’s house.”
“If you were in my place, what would you do Katherine?”
“I would go to Russia.”
“What would you do when you arrived there?”
“If I had wealth I would use it in such a campaign of bribery and corruption in that country of tyrants that I should release two innocent men. I’d first find out where they were, then I’d use all the influence I possessed with the American Ambassador to get them set free.”
“The American Ambassador, Kate, cannot move to release either an Englishman or a Russian.”
“I’d do it somehow. I wouldn’t sit here like a stick or a stone, writing letters to my architect.”