"She looks at us through and through.

Yet she doesn't stare." But at that moment Alice heard the word "prince," and her attention was instantly arrested.
"We had some Russian neighbours," the newcomer was saying; "Prince and Princess Jaroslav; and they had an English party at Christmas.

It was great fun.

They used to take us out riding into the mountains, or into Italy." She paused a moment, and then said carelessly--as though to keep up the conversation--"There was a Mr.Falloden with them--an undergraduate at Marmion College, I think.

Do you know him, Aunt Ellen ?" She turned towards her aunt.
But Mrs.Hooper only looked blank.