She has acted impulsively--but she has acted generously." "She has acted beautifully," said the Prince.
"I say 'generously' because I mean she hasn't, in any way, counted the cost.

She'll have it to count, in a manner, now," his hostess continued.
"But that doesn't matter." He could see how little.

"You'll look after her." "I'll look after her." "So it's all right." "It's all right," said Mrs.Assingham.

"Then why are you troubled ?" It pulled her up--but only for a minute.

"I'm not--any more than you." The Prince's dark blue eyes were of the finest, and, on occasion, precisely, resembled nothing so much as the high windows of a Roman palace, of an historic front by one of the great old designers, thrown open on a feast-day to the golden air.