The Venetians were too much for Shylock, and he lost his ducats and his daughter; amongst Christian Greeks, Christian Armenians, and Musalman Persians, from Constantinople to Tiflis, Teheran, Bagdad and Cairo, the poor man could not have saved sixpence a year.
This is not a mere digression, since it may serve to define Logotheti's position in the scale of the financial forces.
Margaret took his hand and looked at him just a little longer than she had looked at Mustapha Pasha.

He never wrote to her, and never took the trouble to let her know where he was; but when they met his time was hers, and when he could be with her he seemed to have no other pre-occupation in life.
'I came over from Paris to-day,' he said.

'When may I come and see you ?' That was always the first question, for he never wasted time.
'To-morrow, if you like.

Come late--about seven.' The Ambassador was on her other side.

A little knot of men and one lady were standing near the fire in an expectant sort of way, ready to be introduced to Margaret.