What's certain is that she didn't come for nothing.

She wants"-- she worked it out at her leisure--"to see the Prince again.

THAT isn't what troubles me.

I mean that such a fact, as a fact, isn't.

But what I ask myself is, What does she want it FOR ?" "What's the good of asking yourself if you know you don't know ?" The Colonel sat back at his own ease, with an ankle resting on the other knee and his eyes attentive to the good appearance of an extremely slender foot which he kept jerking in its neat integument of fine-spun black silk and patent leather.