Later he modified this statement by declaring that she was the most beautiful woman in Europe or elsewhere.

Yet, often she went about as one in a waking dream.

There was an aloofness which was not born of hauteur but rather of a lingering doubt of herself.
She was still in the window-seat when the chancellor was announced.

She distrusted him a little, she knew not why; yet, when he bent over her hand she was certain that his whole heart was behind his salute.
"Your Highness," he said, "I am come to announce to you that there waits for you a high place in the affairs of the world." "The second crown in Jugendheit ?" "Your father-- ?" "Yes.

He leaves the matter wholly in my hands." The sparkle in his eyes was the first evidence of emotion she had ever seen in him.