But for a serious affair--" "Well, it may not come to that," Anna interrupted, "but there it is.

I suppose that it is partly for his sake that I feel this depression." "I should have thought that he himself would have been a little out of sympathy with his country just now," the Princess remarked.

"They tell me that the Foreign Office ate humble pie with the Kaiser for that affair shockingly.

They not only removed him from the Embassy, but they are going to give him nothing in Europe.

I heard for a fact that the Kaiser requested that he should not be attached to any Court with which Germany had diplomatic relations." Anna nodded.