When the Prince came and began to drop hints about the way the spread of Socialism had been checked in Hungary and Austria, and even Germany, I was interested from the first.

And when he went further, and spoke of the Society, it was I who persuaded Dorset to join.

Dear man, he is very earnest, but very slow, and very averse to anything at all secretive.

I am sure the reflection that he is a member of a secret society, even although it is simply a linking together of the aristocracy of Europe in their own defence, has kept him awake for many a night." Lucille was a little bored.
"The Society," she said, "is an admirable one enough, but just now I am beginning to feel it a little exacting.

I think that the Prince expects a good deal of one.