"The beauty which is not for him has been many a man's undoing.

But seriously, my quarrel with Naida is one of prejudice only.

She is the confidante and the inspiration of Matinsky, and though one realises, of course, that so long as there is a Russian Republic there must be a Russian President, I suppose I should scarcely be human if I did not hate him." "Surely," Nigel queried, "she must be very much his junior ?" "Matinsky is forty-four," Karschoff said.

"Naida is twenty-six or twenty-seven.

The disparity of years, you see, is not so great.
Matinsky, however, is married to an invalid wife, and concerning Naida I have never heard one word of scandal.