For the Duchess of Kent, Arthur's words were not difficult to understand, yet she still had doubts: "Be that as it may, I heard... Viscount Palmerston seems to be planning to directly send troops to Spain to intervene in their civil war, which is much more aggressive than what we did in Portugal."
"Aggressive? No, Your Highness, I guess you surely do not understand Viscount Palmerston."
Arthur got irritated whenever Palmerston was mentioned, but he tried to remain calm while casting mud on the Foreign Secretary's face: "I assure you, he will not send troops directly to Spain; even if he does send troops, they would not be regular forces but retired veterans, and they will not carry any official banner, at most they're called the British Volunteer Army or something like that. That gentleman at the Foreign Office is well-versed in undeclared warfare; it was so in Greece, in Portugal, and likewise in Spain."
"Then can't it be the same in the Caucasus?"
