But the signorina will receive no favors; I know her well! She would rather have her beauty blasted than seem to care about the marriage, and if she ever accepts the prince it will be only after he has implored her on his knees!" "But she does care about it," said Rowland, "and to bring him to his knees she is working upon his jealousy by pretending to be interested in my friend Hudson.

If you said more, you would say that, eh ?" The Cavaliere's shrewdness exchanged a glance with Rowland's.

"By no means.

Miss Light is a singular girl; she has many romantic ideas.
She would be quite capable of interesting herself seriously in an interesting young man, like your friend, and doing her utmost to discourage a splendid suitor, like the prince.

She would act sincerely and she would go very far.