“I mean either.”
“In class I have never heard him mention the war. Privately he has sometimes agreed with things I have said to him.”
“What have you said to him?”
“I have said it's a war for profits, and that for this reason I find it hard to give it any support.”
“What reason can you have for saying that it's a war for profits?”
“I have seen the evidence, sir.”
“Indeed! Who has shown it to you?”
“My father, for one.”
The banker from Hartford appeared taken aback. “Your father has said that in so many words?”
“He has said it a hundred times. He wrote it to me continually while I was living in France. He warned me on no account to let myself forget that it's a war to protect big French and British interests, and that many of them are trading with the enemy, and protecting their own properties to the injury of their country.”