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THE PRIME MINISTER
Doctor.
So they will.
Margaret.
They're doing that already, uncle.
Doctor.
Already?
Margaret.
When I came home this evening there were three
Inspectors of Police in the house.
Doctor.
That means internment. Before long we shall be
shut up in a camp, and driven mad, or worse, as
our people were during the last war.
Margaret.
Oh, I hate them! I hate them!
Mrs. Schiller.
Don't say that, Margaret.
Margaret.
But I do say it. And never as long as I live will
I set foot in an English house again.
Mrs. Schiller.
Don't say that either. We've lived thirty years
among the English, your uncle and I, and found
many kind friends among them. It's not the people's
fault! It's the Government over them.
Hoffmann.
That's true. It's not so much the English nation
as the man at the head of it.