She merely sighed again.

The Prince thought it a convenient moment to assert his position.
"I have stayed a long while in Innspruck, setting my constancy, which bade me stay, above my dignity, which bade me go.

For three months I have stayed,--a long while, madam." "I do not think three years could have been longer," said Clementina, with the utmost sympathy.
"So now in the end I have called my pride to help me." "The noblest gift that heaven has given a man," said Clementina, fervently.
The Prince bowed low; Clementina curtsied majestically.
[Illustration: THE PRINCE STRUTTED TO THE WINDOW; CLEMENTINA SOLEMNLY KEPT PACE WITH HIM."-- _Page 161._] "Will you give me your hand," said he, "as far as your window ?" "Certainly, sir, and out of it." Clementina laid her hand in his.

The Prince strutted to the window; Clementina solemnly kept pace with him.
"What do you see?
A sentinel fixed there guarding you.

At the door stands a second sentinel.