"I'm an American." "Well, you'll find you're a German, if you like to say anything disagreeable about the coffee in the restaurant of the Emperor's railroad station; the first thing you know I shall be given three months on your account." Mrs.Adding asked: "Then they won't punish ladies?
There, Rose! I'm safe, you see; and you're still a minor, though you are so wise for your years." She went back to her table, where Kenby came and sat down by her.
"I don't know that I quite like her playing on that sensitive child,", said Mrs.March.

"And you've joined with her in her joking.

Go and speak, to him!" The boy was slowly following his mother, with his head fallen.

March overtook him, and he started nervously at the touch of a hand on his shoulder, and then looked gratefully up into the man's face.

March tried to tell him what the crime of lese-majesty was, and he said: "Oh, yes.
I understood that.