71/233 "And also has no great means." "Very small ones. Which is not, however, with the expense of railways and hotels, a reason for her running to and fro." "On the contrary. But she doesn't like her country." "Hers, my dear man ?--it's little enough 'hers.'" The attribution, for the moment, amused his hostess. "She has rebounded now--but she has had little enough else to do with it." "Oh, I say hers," the Prince pleasantly explained, "very much as, at this time of day, I might say mine. I quite feel, I assure you, as if the great place already more or less belonged to ME." "That's your good fortune and your point of view. |