She watched him with a great and growing curiosity.
"Prince," she said, "they tell me that you are a great student of history." "I have read what is known of the history of most of the countries of the world," he admitted.
"There have been men," she persisted, "who have dealt in empires for the price of a woman's smile." "Such men have loved," he said, "as I love." "Yet for you life has always been a great and lofty thing," she reminded him.

"You could not stand where you do if you had not realised the beauty and wonder of sacrifice.

Fate has given the peace of the world into your keeping.

You will not juggle with the trust ?" He rose to his feet.

A servant stood almost immediately at the open door.
"Fate and an American engineer," he remarked with a smile.