[Kesara contemplates this for a moment. If this Mr. Kain is Russian, or a spy, or something like, then she cannot know what he knows. And it is probably best, if he is trying to distract her from the option of being captured by her enemies, that she lets him think the attempt is working.]

Perhaps it isn't. I hardly thought the Russians were capable of creating something like this, this - speech-telegraph. I don't know who could do that. It's such a very grand invention.