The remote probability of meeting anyone here who knew the Princess reassured her, and there speedily came over her a sense of delight in all the kaleidoscopic bewilderment of this great entertainment.

She saw that each one there had interest in someone else, and, to her great relief, found herself left entirely alone with reasonable assurance that this remoteness would continue to befriend her until the final gauntlet of leave-taking had to be run; a trial still to be encountered, the thought of which she resolutely put away from her, trusting to the luck that had hitherto not deserted her.
Jennie was in this complaisant frame of mind when she was suddenly startled by a voice at her side.
"Ah, Princess, I have been searching everywhere for you, catching glimpses of you now and then, only to lose you, as, alas, has been my fate on more serious occasion.

May I flatter myself with the belief that you also remember ?" There was no recognition in the large frightened eyes that were turned upon him.

They saw a young man bowing low over the unresisting hand he had taken.

His face was clear-cut and unmistakably English.