"I am an obscure American; your Highness does not share your--that is----" I stopped, not wishing to give the term escapade to anything she might do.

As a matter of fact she has caused her royal guardian, the King, no end of trouble.

She went to Paris once unattended; at another time she roamed around Heidelberg and slashed a fencing master; she had donned a student's garb.

She is said to be the finest swordswoman on the Continent.

Yet, notwithstanding her caprices, she is a noble-minded woman.