“That is what Papa said,” Meta agreed.
“Since the Czar Alexander III came to the throne,” Richard added, “I cannot believe that they think of anything else. They are aiming for power and even more power. That can be very dangerous as we all know.”
“I wish you had told me before that all this was happening,” Meta said. “I should have taken more interest in what was written about Russia in the newspapers.”
“You will not find very much about it in the English newspapers,” her brother answered. “It is the foreign ones that point out the danger of the Czar’s ambitions while those who have been crushed beneath the Russian feet and Cossack horses cry for the help that no one gives them.”
“It sounds – frightening,” Meta murmured.
“It is very frightening and thank Goodness the Marquis of Salis
