Chapter 17

"When we're all to be exterminated, he means!" Lady Wathe gasped behind her filmy handkerchief. "Tido, you're too absolutely screaming! Do say why your noble young Prussians keep us waiting? ..." And von Herrnung answered composedly: "Because we are not yet ready. We shall not be perfectly ready before the spring of 1916." His hard, bright glance encountered Franky's, and he lifted his full glass of champagne and drank to him, smiling pleasantly. Of course the German was rotting, reflected Franky. If he wasn't…