For certain reasons I think that it would be well for you to be married before you actually come of age.

That is why I have invited the Count de Brensault here to-night." Jeanne's dark eyes were fixed curiously upon the Princess.
"Sometimes," she said, "I do not altogether understand you.

Why should there be all this nervous haste about my marriage?
Do you know that it would trouble me a great deal more, only that I have absolutely made up my mind that nothing will induce me to marry any one whom I do not really care for." The Princess raised her head, and for a moment the woman and the girl looked at one another.

It was almost a duel--the Princess' intense, almost threatening regard, and Jeanne's set face and steadfast eyes.
"My father left me all this money," Jeanne said, "that I might be happy, not miserable.

I am quite determined that I will not ruin my life before it has commenced.