“But must you interfere?”
“We try not to, except when things go really wrong,” Lord Branscombe explained, “such as the crimes committed by the thugs who kill thousands of people every year just because it is part of their religion or the horrors of Suttee and child marriages in which many of the brides are no more than three to five years old!”
“I can understand that to insist on those reforms is absolutely right,” Latonia said.
“And it is also right that our Empire should not be challenged by another Power,” Lord Branscombe added drily.
“Do you mean Russia?”
He nodded his head instead of speaking and Latonia thought that he did not wish to continue the conversation any further.
She sat thinking over what he had said, until, when they were once again in the train carrying them Northw
