He fought a duel with her husband and killed him.

The Kaiser was furious and banished him to East Africa." Dominey picked up his shooting-stick and handed his gun to Middleton.
The beaters were through the wood.
"Yes, I remember now," he said.

"She addressed me as Leopold." "I still don't see why it was necessary to invite her here," his companion observed a little petulantly.

"She may--call you Leopold again!" "If she does, I shall be deaf," Dominey promised.

"But seriously, she is a cousin of the Princess Terniloff, and the two women are devoted to one another.