Again she made no reply, but the question set her thinking: why had she mixed herself up in this mysterious business?
It was quite at variance with the usual methods of her gay and butterfly existence to meddle at all with serious things.

Had she acted merely from a desire to see justice done and wickedness punished?
Or was it the desire of adventure?
Or was it, perhaps, the desire to be of service to His Serene Highness Prince Aribert?
'It is no fault of mine that you are in this fix,' Jules continued.

'I didn't bring you into it.

You brought yourself into it.

You and your father--you have been moving along at a pace which is rather too rapid.' 'That remains to be seen,' she put in coldly.
'It does,' he admitted.