I desire to see you to-night at seven o'clock." "But, my dear lady," Dominey began-- Her eyes suddenly glowed with a new light.
"I will not be trifled with," she insisted.

"If you wish to succeed in whatever scheme you have on hand, you must not make an enemy of me.

I shall expect you at seven o'clock." She passed away from him into the restaurant.

Mr.Mangan, now freed from his friends, rejoined his host, and the two men took their places at the side table to which they were ushered with many signs of attention.
"Wasn't that the Princess Eiderstrom with whom you were talking ?" the solicitor asked curiously.
"A lady addressed me by mistake," Dominey explained.

"She mistook me, curiously enough, for a man who used to be called my double at Oxford.
Sigismund Devinter he was then, although I think he came into a title later on." "The Princess is quite a famous personage," Mr.Mangan remarked, "one of the richest widows in Europe.