She seems quite a pleasant person, but not in the least like her niece." "Miss Abbeway is still here, of course ?" "Naturally.

I asked her for a week, and I think she means to stay.
We talked for an hour after tea this afternoon, and I found her most interesting.

She has been living in England for years, it seems, down in Chelsea, studying sculpture." "She is a remarkably clever young woman," Julian said thoughtfully, "but a little incomprehensible.

If the Princess Torski is her aunt, who were her parents ?" "Her father," the Countess replied, "was Colonel Richard Abbeway, who seems to have been military attache at St.Petersburg, years ago.

He married a sister of the Princess Torski's husband, and from her this young woman inherited a title which she won't use and a large fortune.
Colonel Abbeway was killed accidentally in the Russo-Japanese War, and her mother died a few years ago." "No German blood, or anything of that sort, then ?" "My dear boy, what an idea!" his mother exclaimed reprovingly.