She held out her hand and smiled sweetly upon Andrew.
"We are so much obliged to you for your delightful tea, Mr.Andrew," she said.

"I hope that next time my daughter goes wandering about in dangerous places you may be there to look after her." Andrew looked swiftly away towards Jeanne.

Somehow or other the Princess' words seemed to come to him at that moment charged with some secondary meaning.

He felt instinctively that notwithstanding her thoroughly advanced airs, Jeanne was little more than a child as compared with these people.

She met his eyes with one of her most delightful smiles.
"Some day, I hope," she said, "that you will take me out in the punt again.