But he smiled blandly, and addressing the Cavaliere, "I 'm much obliged to you for the information," he said.

"Now that I have obtained it, let me tell you that I am no more in love with Miss Light than you are.

Mr.
Mallet knows that.

I admire her--yes, profoundly.

But that 's no one's business but my own, and though I have, as you say, neither a princely title nor a princely fortune, I mean to suffer neither those advantages nor those who possess them to diminish my right." "If you are not in love, my dear young man," said the Cavaliere, with his hand on his heart and an apologetic smile, "so much the better.