I thought she would refuse, but she said that she would come as Prince Karl requested.

I was her maid, I dressed her and she was very beautiful.

She went to the dinner, and the aged Lady Ursula, the cousin and dependent of the prince, sat with her." "What happened ?" asked John in a low voice.
"I think it was their intention at first to remind her that she was a prisoner.

Prince Karl is a hard and stern man, and he would bend her to his will, but the Prince Wilhelm frowned upon them all, and the Count Kratzek was also most respectful." "They had brought her to complete their triumph and instead the triumph was hers," John could not keep from saying.
"It is so," admitted Ilse.

"They were abashed before her, and at the last when they drank a toast to the glorious victory of our German race, she withheld her glass, and then, taking a sip of the wine, she said she wished with all her heart, as long as it should beat in her body, for the triumph of France.