I hope upon the next occasion you will be able to come." "I am much obliged to your highness," she said, "but it would be a truer kindness to let me stay quietly at home." "But that is selfish of you, Miss Hannay.

You should think a little of the pleasure of others as well as your own." "I am not conceited enough to suppose that it could make any difference to other people's pleasure whether I am at a party or not," Isobel said.
"I suppose you mean that as a compliment, Rajah, but I am not accustomed to compliments, and don't like them." "You will have to learn to become accustomed to compliments, Miss Hannay," the Rajah said, with a smile; and then turning to the Doctor, began to tell him of a tiger that had been doing a great deal of harm at a village some thirty miles away, and offered to send some elephants over to organize a hunt for him if he liked, an invitation that the Doctor promptly accepted.
The visit was but a short one.

The Rajah soon took his leave.
"You are wrong altogether, Isobel," the Doctor said.

"I have returned to my conviction that the Rajah is a first rate fellow." "That is just because he offered you some shooting, Doctor," Isobel said indignantly.

"I thought better of you than to suppose that you could be bought over so easily as that." "She had you there, Doctor," the Major laughed.