A lady in walking-costume appeared, with two ladies in attendance on her.

The two gentlemen started to their feet, and whispered to my aunt, "The Princess!" This was the exalted personage whom the superintendent at Bethlehem had been too discreet to describe more particularly as a daughter of George the Third.

Passing the door on her way to the Palace-gardens, the Princess had heard the contending voices, and the name of Jack distinctly pronounced in a woman's tones.

Inheriting unusually vigorous impulses of curiosity from her august father, her Highness opened the door and joined the party without ceremony.
"What are you quarreling about ?" inquired the Princess.

"And who is this lady ?" Mrs.Wagner was presented, to answer for herself.