She shrugged her shoulders.
"We've known for a long time, dear, that it must come." "But all the same, in these last moments it is terrible," Anna insisted.
"Seriously, Mildred, I wonder that I should feel it more than you.

You are absolutely English.

Your father is English, your mother is English.
It is only your husband that is Austrian.

You have lived in Austria only for seven years.

Has that been sufficient to destroy all your patriotism, all your love for your own country ?" The Princess made a little grimace.
"My dear Anna," she said, "I am not so serious a person as you are.