"You are out of training.

If you do not mind you will be like Lord Ronald, an old young man, and I would never let any one say the sort of things you were going to say who couldn't catch me when I ran away." She went laughing up the stairs, and Cecil de la Borne turned into his study.

The Princess was playing patience, and the two men were in easy-chairs.
"At last!" the Princess remarked, throwing down her cards.

"My dear Cecil, do you realize that you have kept us waiting nearly an hour ?" "I thought, perhaps," he answered, "that you had had enough bridge." "Absurd!" the Princess declared.

"What else is there to do?
Come and cut, and pray that you do not draw me for a partner.