The Baroness stepped between them.
"Mr.Norgate," she said, "you will please give me your escort home." The Prince's companions had seized him, one by either arm.

An older man who had been dining in a distant corner of the room, and who wore the uniform of an officer of high rank, suddenly approached.

He addressed the Prince, and they all talked together in excited whispers.

Norgate with calm fingers arranged the cloak around his companion and placed a hundred mark note upon his plate.
"I will return for my change another evening," he said to the dumbfounded waiter.

"If you are ready, Baroness." They left the restaurant amid an intense hush.