We have become very good friends, you and I.Too good, perhaps, for I've no doubt there are old tabbies in Edelweiss who are provoked to criticism--you know what I mean.

Their world is full of imaginary affairs, else what would there be left for old age?
But we are good friends and we understand why we are good friends, so there's the end to that.

As I say, I could not have asked so true a friend into the house of his enemy for the mere sake of having my vanity pleased by his obedience." "I am quite sure of that," he said.

"Are you in trouble, Countess?
Is there anything I can do ?" "It has to do with the Prince, not with me," she said.

"And yet I am in trouble--or perhaps I should say, I am troubled." "The Prince is a sturdy little beggar," he began, but she lifted her hand in protest.
"And he has sturdy, loyal friends.