Even on this inclement day I come to pay my duty though the streets are deep in snow." "Oh, sir," exclaimed Clementina, "then your feet are wet.

Never run such risks for me.

I would have no man weep on my account though it were only from a cold in the head." The Prince glanced at Clementina suspiciously.

Was this devotion?
He preferred to think so.
"Madam, have no fears," said he, tenderly, wishing to set the anxious creature at her ease.

"I drove here in my carriage." "But from the carriage to the door you walked ?" "No, madam, I was carried." Clementina's lips twitched again.
"I would have given much to have seen you carried," she said demurely.
"I suppose you would not repeat the--No, it would be to ask too much.
Besides, from my windows here in the side of the house I could not see." And she sighed deeply.
The fatuous gentleman took comfort from the sigh.
"Madam, you have but to say the word and your windows shall look whichever way you will." Clementina, however, did not say the word.