After the collapse of Roman law and The Senate, the nation's fate and future were entrusted to three men who claimed revenge but were driven by ambition.
— Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Arthur did not immediately respond to Stockma's questioning, as if those resounding words were nothing but a gentle breeze.
He neither spoke nor looked up, just following his own pace, slicing the veal steak on his plate into small pieces and sending them to his mouth.
However, the more he handled things with such calmness, the more uncertain Stockma felt.
He had no clear idea of what Arthur relied on behind the scenes; he had just questioned Arthur's connections to the Duke of Wellington and Sir Pier based on his deductions from recent happenings at Kensington Palace.
