Rupert wrote to me some time ago to say that when I got to Vissarion I should be an Empress, and he certainly took care that on the way here I should be treated like one.

Rooke, who seems a wonderful old man, was in the next compartment to that reserved for me.

At Harwich he had everything arranged perfectly, and so right on to Fiume.

Everywhere there were attentive officials waiting.

I had a carriage all to myself, which I joined at Antwerp--a whole carriage with a suite of rooms, dining-room, drawing-room, bedroom, even bath-room.