Do you object to this?"
"No," I said frankly, "I do not."
"Good! You will also mingle freely in Ambassadorial and
foreign circles. It would be well for you to dine, at
least once a week, with the British Ambassador. And now
one final word"--here Gestern spoke with singular
impressiveness--"as to the President of the United States."
"Yes," I said.
"You must mix with him on a footing of the most open-handed
friendliness. Be at the White House continually. Make
yourself in the fullest sense of the words the friend
and adviser of the President. All this I think is clear.
In fact, it is only what is done, as you know, by all
the masters of international diplomacy."
"Precisely," I said.
"Very good. And then," continued the Baron, "as soon as
you find yourself sufficiently _en rapport_ with everybody,
or I should say," he added in correction, for the Baron
shares fully in the present German horror of imported
French words, "when you find yourself sufficiently in
enggeknupfterverwandtschaft with everybody, you may then
proceed to advance your peace terms. And now, my dear
fellow," said the Baron, with a touch of genuine cordiality,
"one word more. Are you in need of money?"
"Yes," I said.
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