"She is married to a German prince--Prince Adolf, of Silberstadt-Schreckenstein.

He is not the reigning prince; he is a younger brother." Gertrude gazed at her informant; her lips were slightly parted.

"Is she a--a Princess ?" she asked at last.
"Oh, no," said the young man; "her position is rather a singular one.

It 's a morganatic marriage." "Morganatic ?" These were new names and new words to poor Gertrude.
"That 's what they call a marriage, you know, contracted between a scion of a ruling house and--and a common mortal.

They made Eugenia a Baroness, poor woman; but that was all they could do.