I have not seen His Holiness for three months.

Good day--gentlemen." The two passed again in silence down the terraces on their way to the Trianon.
"It is amazing," burst out Monsignor suddenly.

"And the people.
What of them?
Is there no resentment ?" "Why should there be ?" asked the other.
"But they are excluded from the palace and the park.

It was not so a hundred years ago." "Do you think they are any the less happy ?" asked Father Jervis.
"My dear Monsignor, surely you know human nature better than that! They have lost the vulgarity of Versailles, and they have regained its royalty.

Don't you see that ?" "Well!"-- Monsignor paused.