We are the subject races," and he turned to her abruptly.

"I am in disfavour to-night.

Do you know why?
Because I am not dressed in a silk jacket; because I am not wearing jewels like a woman, as those Princes are," and he waved his hand contemptuously towards a group of them.

"They are content," he cried.

"But I was brought up in England, and I am not." He buried his face in his hands and was silent; and as he sat thus, Violet Oliver said to him with a gentle reproach: "When we parted in London last year you spoke in a different way--a better way.