Then the great Monsieur Auguste is lured from Paris to prepare your supper, and not a lady leaves without some priceless jewel." "I entertain so seldom," he reminded her.

"I fear that the fame of my feasts has been exaggerated." "When do you leave, Prince ?" she asked him.
"Within a few days," he replied.
"I come for your last word," she announced.

"All that I have written to Paul Matinsky you know." "The last word is not yet to be spoken," he said.

"This, however, you may tell Matinsky.

The scheme of Oscar Immelan has been laid before me.
I have rejected it." "In what other way, then, would you use your power ?" she asked.
He made no answer.