The Princess looked curiously at the Duke, and Forrest frowned heavily when he recognized him.

There was a moment's almost embarrassed silence.
Then Andrew did what seemed to him to be the reasonable thing.
"Princess," he said, "will you allow me to present my friend the Duke of Westerham.

The Duke was staying with me a few weeks ago, as you know, and at that time he had a particular reason for not wishing his whereabouts to be known." The Duke bowed over the Princess' hand, which was offered him at once, and without hesitation, but his greeting to Forrest was markedly cold.
Forrest had evidently lost his nerve.

He seemed tongue-tied, and he was very pale.

It was the Princess alone who saved the situation from becoming an exceedingly embarrassing one.
"I have heard of you very often, Duke," she said.