"But you see, I only met the Princess a short time ago, and there would be no use in raising trouble, unless she will make me her Knight!" "But hasn't she, Laddie ?" "Not in the very littlest least," said Laddie.

"For all I know, she is merely using me to help pass a lonely hour.

You see, people reared in England have ideas of class, that two or three generations spent here wash out.

The Princess and her family are of the unwashed British.
Father's people have been here long enough to judge a man on his own merits." "You mean the Princess' family would think you're not good enough to be her Knight ?" "Exactly!" "And we know that our family thinks they are infidels, and wicked people; and that if she would have you, mother would be sick in bed over it.

Oh Laddie!" "Precisely!" "What are you going to do ?" "That I must find out." "When it will make so much trouble, why not forget her, and go on like you did before she came?
Then, all of us were happy.