On the other
hand, there is a great party in Germany, and a very far-seeing one,
which is continually reminding the Government that, without Great
Britain as a market, Germany would never recover from the financial
strain of the war."
"This is all too impersonal," Philippa objected. "Do you, in your
heart, believe that the time might come when in the night we should
hear the guns booming in Dreymarsh Bay, and see your grey-clad
soldiers forming up on the beach and scaling our cliffs?"
"That will not be yet," he pronounced. "It has been thought of.
Once it was almost attempted. Just at present, no."
Philippa drew a sigh of relief.
"Then your mission in Dreymarsh has nothing to do with an attempted
landing?"
"Nothing," he assured her. "I can even go a little further. I can
tell you that if ever we do try to land, it will be in an unsuspected
place, in an unexpected fashion."
"Well, it's really very comforting to hear these things at
first-hand," Philippa declared, with some return to her usual manner.
"I suppose we are really two disgraceful women, Helen and I--traitors
and all the rest of it. Here we sit talking to an enemy as though he
were one of our best friends."
"I refuse to be called an enemy," Lessingham protested. "There are
times when individuality is a far greater thing than nationality.
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