"It is there any more news about that extraordinary murder ?" "Nothing fresh in the early editions," Sir Charles answered.
"I think," the Duchess declared, "that it is perfectly scandalous.

Our police system must be in a disgraceful state.

Tell me, Prince,--could anything like that happen in your country ?" "Without doubt," the Prince answered, "life moves very much in the East as with you here.

Only with us," he added a little thoughtfully, "there is a difference, a difference of which one is reminded at a time like this, when one reads your newspapers and hears the conversation of one's friends." "Tell us what you mean ?" Penelope asked quickly.
He looked at her as one might have looked at a child,--kindly, even tolerantly.

He was scarcely so tall as she was, and Penelope's attitude towards him was marked all the time with a certain frigidity.