"How does he look since he became a Cabinet Minister ?" "Portentous," Lady Maltenby replied; with a smile.

"He doesn't look as though he would ever unbend.

Then the Shervintons are here, and the Princess Torski--your friend Miss Abbeway's aunt." "The Princess Torski ?" Julian repeated.

"Who on earth is she ?" "She was English," his mother explained, "a cousin of the Abbeways.

She married in Russia and is on her way now to France to meet her husband, who is in command of a Russian battalion there.