It was necessary to postpone the marriage.

He will be quite well again, they say--by June." Chase thought of the small, nervous, excitable prince and in his mind there arose a great doubt.

They might pronounce him cured, but would it be true?
"I hope he may be fully recovered, for your sake," he managed to say.
"Thank you." After a long pause, she turned to him again and said: "We are to live in Paris for a year or two at least." Then Chase understood.

Prince Karl would not be entirely recovered in June.

He did not ask, but he knew in some strange way that his physicians were there and that it would be necessary for him to be near them.
"He is in Paris now ?" "No," she answered, and that was all.