That is not true.

I have always been free to marry, but although to-day we figure as a great progressive nation, many of the thousand-year-old ideas of ancient China have dwelt in my brain and still sit enshrined in my heart.

The aristocracy of China has passed through evil times.

There is no princess of my own country whom I could meet on equal terms.

So, you see, although it develops differently, there is something of the snobbishness of your western countries reflected in our own ideas." "But I am not a princess," Maggie murmured.
"You are the princess of my soul," he answered, lowering his eyes for a moment almost reverently.