They invite you to share their new quarters with them.

There is ample room." "Oh, how fortunate for me!" "And yet the affair is not so altogether fortunate, after all.

Rossi has fallen from favour, and with his fall the whole liberal party loses its influence at the Vatican." But what did the princess care for the liberal party at that moment?
She was thinking of the lucky chance that had made it possible for her to meet Manasseh again--at the house of their common friends.
"Now I must beg you," said she, changing the subject, "to press my suit as diligently as possible.

But first let me ask you a question.

You are thoroughly familiar with the marriage laws of the Romish Church, aren't you ?" "I know them as I do the Lord's Prayer." "Do you remember the fourteenth paragraph ?" "The fourteenth paragraph?
Thank God we have nothing to do with that." "Why 'thank God' ?" "Because the fourteenth paragraph has to do with state's prison offences; it declares null and void any marriage, if either of the contracting parties has committed such an offence." The mystery was clear to Blanka now..