With your permission I will take this easy-chair.

So! That is excellent.

We can now talk undisturbed." Mr.Sabin bowed.
"You will find me," he said, "an excellent listener." The Prince smiled in an amiable manner.

His eyes were fixed upon Lucille, who had drawn her chair a little away from the table.

What other woman in the world who had passed her first youth could sit thus in the slanting sunlight and remain beautiful?
"I will ask you to believe," the Prince said slowly, "how sincerely I regret this unavoidable interference in a domestic happiness so touching.