"Gentlemen, Mr. Hastings has arrived."
Arthur, led by his secretary, walked into the office and immediately saw two important members of the Cabinet leaning on the sofa, smiling as they sized him up.
Although Arthur had already learned about today's main event from Chadwick's mouth, he still felt uneasy until the matter was completely clarified.
Frankly, it was just another junior rank knighthood; he already had plenty of those honorifics.
More than being addressed as 'Sir,' he preferred to fish for something substantial.
At the very least, he needed to extract some useful information from the two Gentlemen—what exactly was going on with the assassination in Liverpool, and whether the Home Office was involved. He was still in the dark about it.
Although Talleyrand insisted that the matter was related to the Russians, Arthur always took the words of the old cripple with a grain of salt.
