He also met some that were hostile.

His Sophie had tried a dangerous experiment.

In Lady Danesborough, the Maisie Shepherd of his urchindom, whose name he had never known, she had assured him a sympathetic and influential partner.

Also, although he had tactfully not taken up that lady's remark, he felt proud of his Princess's glorious certainty that he would have no false and contemptible shame in the encounter.

She had known that it would be a joy to him; and it was.