If he or you disobey the consequences will be serious." Lucille shrugged her shoulders.
"It is easy to talk," she said, "but you will not find it easy to keep Victor away when he has found out where I am." The Prince intervened.
"We have no objection to your meeting," he said, "but it must be as acquaintances.

There must be no intermission or slackening in your task, and that can only be properly carried out by the Countess Radantz and from Dorset House." Lucille smothered her disappointment.
"Dear me," she said.

"You will find Victor a little hard to persuade." There was a moment's silence.

Then the Prince spoke slowly, and watching carefully the effect of his words upon Lucille.
"Countess," he said, "it has been our pleasure to make of your task so far as possible a holiday.

Yet perhaps it is wiser to remind you that underneath the glove is an iron hand.