"A Court favourite, too! Never been seen alone before except with her young princeling.

What honeyed words did you use, Lothario--" "Oh, chuck it!" Norgate interrupted.

"Tell me about the Baroness von Haase! She is Austrian, isn't she ?" Ansell nodded.
"Related to the Hapsburgs themselves, I believe," he said.

"Very old family, anyhow.

They say she came to spend a season here because she was a little too go-ahead for the ladies of Vienna.