Supposing Prince Frederick withdrew his claims?
Some day her Highness would be free; free, without title or money or shelter.

It was a wild dream.

Was there not, when all was said, a faint hope for his own affairs in the fall of Fitzgerald?
She was lonely, friendless, personally known to few.

Still, she would be an Osian princess for all her misfortunes.

But an Osian princess was not so great that love might not possess her.