What is it that has happened for me ?" His hostess, the next moment, had drawn spirit from his tone.
"Oh, I shall be delighted if you'll take your share of it.

Charlotte Stant is in London.

She has just been here." "Miss Stant?
Oh really ?" The Prince expressed clear surprise--a transparency through which his eyes met his friend's with a certain hardness of concussion.

"She has arrived from America ?" he then quickly asked.
"She appears to have arrived this noon--coming up from Southampton; at an hotel.

She dropped upon me after luncheon and was here for more than an hour." The young man heard with interest, though not with an interest too great for his gaiety.