Both are grieved that, duty having called them away for the time, they are unable to be here to help me to greet you." I tell you, Your Honour, that it was a lesson in self-respect which anyone who saw it can never forget.

As to me, it makes my flesh quiver, old as I am, with delight, and my heart leap.
May I, as a faithful servant who has had many years of experience, suggest that Your Honour should seem--for the present, at any rate--not to know any of these things which I have reported, as you wished me to do.

Be sure that the Voivodin will tell you her gracious self aught that she would wish you to know.

And such reticence on your part must make for her happiness, even if it did not for your own.
So that you may know all, as you desired, and that you may have time to school yourself to whatever attitude you think best to adopt, I send this off to you at once by fleet messenger.

Were the aeroplane here, I should take it myself.