"I am delighted to please monsieur," she said in French.
And that was their meeting.

On parting she said again in French: "When are you coming to see me, fickle one ?" "Whenever you ask me.

I have called in vain." "You have a card for my reception next Tuesday ?" "I have replied that I do myself the honour of accepting the Princess's gracious invitation." "I don't like London, do you ?" she asked, allowing a touch of wistfulness to inflect her voice.
"It has its charms.

A row on the Serpentine, for instance, or a bicycle ride in Battersea Park." "How lovely it would be," she said, between laugh and sigh, "if only it could be kept out of the newspapers! I see it from here under the Fashionable Intelligence.

'The beautiful Princess Zobraska was observed in a boat on the ornamental water in Regent's Park with the well-known--tiens--what are you ?--politician, say--with the well-known young politician, Mr.Paul Savelli.' Quel scandale, hein ?" "I must content myself with kissing your finger tips at your reception," said Paul.
She smiled.