My heart was bruised, and I was very unhappy." She paused, but her companion made no sign.

She paused for so long, however, that speech became necessary.
"You are speaking, Princess," he said calmly, "to one who is not present.

My name is no longer Leopold." She laughed at him with a curious mixture of tenderness and bitterness.
"My friend," she continued, "I am terrified to think, besides your name, how much of humanity you have lost in your new identity.

To proceed it suited my convenience to remain for a few days in Berlin, and I was therefore compelled to present myself at Potsdam.

There I received a great surprise.