You intimated that you had many things to say to me, for which we must be alone, and which must reach no listener's ear.

Well, now, to-day I grant you an interview, and I am at last inclined to listen to you." She paused and waited for a reply.

But the earl remained silent.

He only made a deep and respectful bow, bending to the very neck of his horse.
"Well and good; I will go to this rendezvous were it but to blind Elizabeth's eyes, that she may not see what she never ought to see.

That was all." The young princess cast on him an angry look, and a dark scowl gathered on her brow.