"I don't know how to treat you," she said in a helpless flutter." You
know a princess has many trials in life."
"Not the least of which is womanhood."
"Baldos," she said after a long pause. Something very disagreeable had
just rushed into her brain. "Have you been forgetting all this time that
the Princess Yetive is the wife of Grenfall Lorry?"
"It has never left my mind for an instant. From the bottom of my heart I
congratulate him. His wife is an angel as well as a princess."
"Well, in the code of morals, is it quite proper to be so _loyal_
to another man's wife?" she asked, and then she trembled. He was
supposed to know her as the wife of Grenfall Lorry, and yet he had
boldly shown his love for her.
"It depends altogether on the other man's wife," he said, and she looked
up quickly. It was too dark to see his face, but something told her to
press the point no further. Deep down in her heart she was beginning to
rejoice in the belief that he had found her out. If he still believed
her to be the real princess, then he was--but the subject of
conversation, at least, had to be changed.
"You say your message to Ravone was of a purely personal nature," she
said.
"Yes, your highness." She did not like the way in which he said "your
highness." It sounded as if he meant it.
"How did you know that you were to see him to-day?"
"We have waited for this opportunity since last week.
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