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THE PRIME MINISTER
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Inspector.
Sorry, ma'am. We shall be compelled to ask you a few questions.

Mrs. Schiller.
[Nervously.] Well?

[Inspector questions; plain-clothes officer writes answers in book; third man walks about room, looking at everything.

Inspector.
Is this the apartment of Doctor Gottfried Schiller?

Mrs. Schiller.
Yes, it is.

Inspector.
Then you are Mrs. Schiller?

Mrs. Schiller.
Yes, I am.

Inspector.
Your Christian name is—what is your Christian name?

Mrs. Schiller.
Marie.

Inspector.
Native of — what is your native place?

Mrs. Schiller.
Hagen, of Westphalia.

Inspector.
Lived long in London?