Under the present regency he is obliged to reside in the principality until his fifteenth year, after which he may be permitted to travel abroad.
Graustark intends to preserve him to herself if it is in her power to do so.

Woe betide the man who thinks or does ill toward little Prince Robin." King was suddenly conscious of a strange intentness of gaze on the old man's part.

A peculiar, indescribable chill swept over him; he had a distinct, vivid impression that some subtle power was exercising itself upon him--a power that, for the briefest instant, held him in a grip of iron.

What it was, he could not have told; it passed almost immediately.
Something in the old man's eyes, perhaps--or was it something in the queer smile that flickered about his lips?
"My dear Mr.Spantz," he hastened to say, as if a defence were necessary, "please don't get it into your head that I'm thinking ill of the Prince.

I daresay he's a fine little chap and I'm sorry he's--er--lost his parents." Spantz laughed, a soft, mirthless gurgle that caused Truxton to wonder why he had made the effort at all.