He gazed for a moment with an air of satisfaction at his small foot, neatly encased in court shoes.
"You surprise me," he confessed.

"I have considered the matter.

I cannot see any great difficulty." "Then you must be closing your eyes to it willfully," Dominey retorted, "or else you are wholly ignorant of the Princess's temperament and disposition." "I believe I appreciate both," Seaman replied, "but I still do not see any peculiar difficulty in the situation.

As an English nobleman you have a perfect right to enjoy the friendship of the Princess Eiderstrom." "And I thought you were a man of sentiment!" Dominey scoffed.

"I thought you understood a little of human nature.