There was the faintest smile upon her lips.

She was amazingly composed.

She had asked herself repeatedly, almost in terror, how they should meet when the time came.

Now that it had happened, it seemed the most natural thing in the world.

She was scarcely conscious even of embarrassment.
"You are demonstrating to the world," she remarked, "that the reports of your death this morning were exaggerated ?" "I had forgotten the incident," he assured her calmly.
His callousness was so unaffected that she shivered a little.
"Yet this Sen Lu, this man for whom you were mistaken, was an intimate member of your household, was he not ?" "Sen Lu was a very good friend," Prince Shan answered.