He moved a few steps across towards the Princess.
"Princess," he said, "will you make a friend?
Will you let me take your little girl to my sister's for say one week?
You shall have her back then, and you shall do as you will with her." "Willingly," the Princess answered.

"I am only anxious that she should be happy." The Duke marvelled then at the sincerity in her tone.

Nevertheless, for fear she should change her mind, he hurried Jeanne out of the house into his brougham..