The Countess is furious because her daughter was slighted, yet wishes to compel him to fulfill his obligations." "In that event, she would be anxious to see you safely married to some other person ?" "Oh, she was.

She visited me, several times, and advised me not to risk a life-long unhappiness by becoming mixed up in the maze of Mid-Europe politics.

And--there is something else.

Poor Elizabetta Zapolya, who is somewhat older than me, is in love with an attache at the Austro-Hungarian Embassy in Paris." "Have you his name ?" "Yes.

Captain Eugene de Karely." "How does he stand with regard to Count Vassilan ?" "I am told that he has challenged him repeatedly to a duel, but Count Vassilan cannot meet him because they are not equals in the grades of Hungarian aristocracy.