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THE PRIME MINISTER
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Sir Malcolm.
In one of the old houses in Soho Square.

Sir Robert.
What family?

Sir Malcolm.
The wife, a good-natured creature of no account; a son, Friedrich, who used to be a night editor at one of the continental telegraphic agencies——

Sir Robert.
Ah!

Sir Malcolm.
We've had him removed, sir. [Sir Robert nods approval.] Then a son of Paul Schiller, Otto, formerly a medical student at one of the hospitals, and—his sister.

Sir Robert.
A younger sister?

Sir Malcolm.
Older. About six-and-twenty, intensely hostile to this country, and apparently the brains of the whole group, sir.

Sir Robert.
Have you seen this person, Sir Malcolm?

Sir Malcolm.
I have, sir. Having heard something about the young woman, I went to Soho Square myself this morning expressly to see her.

Sir Robert.
What's her name?