There was an angry note in his tone.
"It's that miserable young cub of a Prince Karl!" he exclaimed.
"Last night I was dining, sir, with the Baroness von Haase at the Cafe de Berlin." "Alone ?" "Alone," Norgate admitted.

"It was not for me to invite a chaperon if the lady did not choose to bring one, was it, sir?
As we were finishing dinner, the Prince came in.

He made a scene at our table and ordered me to leave." "And you ?" the Ambassador asked.
"I simply treated him as I would any other young ass who forgot himself," Norgate replied indignantly.

"I naturally refused to go, and the Baroness left the place with me." "And you did not expect to hear of this again ?" "I honestly didn't.

I should have thought, for his own sake, that the young man would have kept his mouth shut.