Afterwards we met in Florence." Nigel was greatly interested.
"Somehow or other, nothing that you can tell me about her surprises me," he admitted.

"She has the air of counting for great things in the world.
She is very beautiful, too." "She is beautiful enough," Maggie replied, "to have turned the head of the great Paul Matinsky himself.

They say that he would give his soul to be free to marry her.

As it is, she is the uncrowned Tsarina of Russia." Nigel frowned slightly.
"Isn't that going rather a long way ?" he objected.
"Not when one remembers what manner of a man Matinsky is," Maggie replied.

"He may have his faults, but he is an absolute idealist so far as regards his private life.