The Princess hates shooting parties, so I thought they could entertain one another." "Bosh! Stephanie will monopolise you all the time! That's what's she's coming for." "You are not suggesting that she intends seriously to put me in the place of my double ?" Dominey asked, with mock alarm.
"Oh, I shouldn't wonder! And she's an extraordinarily attractive woman.
I'm full of complaints, Everard.

There's that other horrible little man, Seaman.

You know that the very sight of him makes Henry furious.

I am quite sure that he never expected to sit down at the same table with him." "I am really sorry about that," Dominey assured her, "but you see His Excellency takes a great interest in him on account of this Friendship League, of which Seaman is secretary, and he particularly asked to have him here." "Well, you must admit that the situation is a little awkward for Henry," she complained.

"Next to Lord Roberts, Henry is practically the leader of the National Service movement here; he hates Germany and distrusts every German he ever met, and in a small house party like this we meet the German Ambassador and a man who is working hard to lull to sleep the very sentiments which Henry is endeavouring to arouse." "It sounds very pathetic," Dominey admitted, with a smile, "but even Henry likes Terniloff, and after all it is stimulating to meet one's opponents sometimes." "Of course he likes Terniloff," Caroline assented, "but he hates the things he stands for.