The young man whispered, "Keep right on until you are in your carriage.

I shall ask my man here to call it for you, but please don't drive away until I come." A sign brought a serving man up the stairs.
"Call the carriage of the Princess von Steinheimer," said his master; then, as the lady descended the stair, Lord Donal turned, with no very thankful feeling in his heart, to hear what his host had to say.
"Lord Donal, the American Ambassador says that woman is not the Princess von Steinheimer, but is someone of no importance whom he has met several times in London.

He cannot remember her name.

Now, who is she, and how did you come to meet her ?" "My Lord Duke, it never occurred to me to question the identity of guests I met under your hospitable roof.

I knew the Princess five years ago in Washington, before she was married.