"I do not attend such gatherings.

I had given you my word that I should not be there." "But I saw you," she persisted, "in that same costume!" "Surely not," he dissented.

"The person whom you saw was a gentleman from my suite, who wore the dress of an inferior mandarin.

He is sometimes supposed to resemble me.

I should have believed that your apprehension of such things would have informed you that no Prince of my line would wear the garments of his order for a public show." Her fingers had left the drawer now.