ABSTRACT
‘Peace is signed,’ said Lord Humnoddie, as the two long acquainted families, his own and the Dulham party, were at afternoon tea in the great hall at Ruddymere, where they sat by preference. ‘It’s rather peace at any price than peace with honour, but there’s no help for it. The thing took us all by surprise; I had just prepared a Home Rule scheme of my own to pacify Ireland, when the war broke out. I have the rough draftof it in that Japan cabinet.’
