I would back you, Lady Maggie, to hold your own against any male creature breathing, of your own order and your own race, but Prince Shan plays the game differently.

He possesses every gift which women and men both admire, but he hasn't our standards.

Life for him means power.
A wish for him entails its fulfilment." "You are afraid," Maggie suggested, still with the laughter in her eyes, "that he will trifle with my affections ?" "Something like that," he admitted bluntly.

"Prince Shan will be here for a week--perhaps a fortnight.

When he goes, he goes a very long distance away." "I may decide to marry him," Maggie said.