"It is for a few months only.

What is your proposition ?" "That you see the Princess in my place at once," Dominey suggested eagerly.

"Point out to her that for the present, for political reasons, I am and must remain Everard Dominey, to her as to the rest of the world.

Let her be content with such measure of friendship and admiration as Sir Everard Dominey might reasonably offer to a beautiful woman whom he met to-day for the first time, and I am entirely and with all my heart at her service.

But let her remember that even between us two, in the solitude of her room as in the drawing-room where we might meet, it can be Everard Dominey only until my mission is ended.