The Princess contrived to pass out with Forrest as her companion.
"I think," she said under her breath, "that this is the best opportunity you could possibly have.

We shall be quite alone down there, and perhaps it would be as well that you were out of London for a few weeks.

If it does not come to anything we can easily make an excuse to get away." Forrest nodded.
"But who is this young man, De la Borne ?" he asked.

"I don't mean that.
I know who he is, of course, but why should he invite perfect strangers to stay with him ?" The Princess smiled faintly.
"Can't you see," she answered, "that he is simply a silly boy?
He is only twenty-four years old, and I think that he cannot have seen much of the world.

He told me that he had just been abroad for the first time.