And you don't say, 'It WILL be twelve o'clock,' when you mean, 'It IS twelve o'clock,' nor 'I will be going out,' when you mean 'I AM.' And you didn't say, 'Eh, sirs!' or 'Eh, mon,' to any of the Court--nor 'Hoot awa!' nor any of those things.

And," she added with a divine little pout, "you haven't told me I was 'sonsie' or 'bonnie' once." I could with difficulty restrain myself.

Rage, indignation, and jealousy filled my heart almost to bursting.

I understood it all; that rascally Scotchman had made the most of his time, and dared to get ahead of me! I did not mind being taken for the King, but to be confounded with this infernal descendant of a gamekeeper--was too much! Yet with a superhuman effort I remained calm--and even smiled.
"You are not well ?" said the Princess earnestly.

"I thought you were taking too much of the Strasbourg pie at supper! And you are not going, surely--so soon ?" she added, as I rose.
"I must go at once," I said.