Von Ragastein planned my death in cold blood.

I could have slain him as an assassin, without the slightest risk, but I preferred to meet him face to face with the truth upon my lips.

It was his life or mine.

I fought for my country's sake, as he did for his." The Princess looked at him with glittering eyes.
"I shall hate you to the end of my days," she declared, "because you have killed the thing I love, but although I am a woman, I know justice.
You were chivalrous towards me.

You treated Leopold perhaps better than he would have treated you.