Really, he was very amusing--this big courtly creature.

How agreeable of Olivia to stay away.
"Ah, tell me how you got here," she impetuously begged.

"Desert island people don't see people from New York every day." "Well then, O Pitiful Princess," said the Shade from Sidon, "it was like this--" It was easy enough to fleet the time carelessly, and assuredly that high moon-lit world was meant to be no less merry than the golden.
Whoever has chanced to meet a delightful companion on some silver veranda up in the welkin knows this perfectly well; and whoever has not is a dull creature.

But there are delightful folk who are wont to suspect the dullest of harbouring some sweet secret, some sense of "those sights which alone (says the nameless Greek) make life worth enduring," and this was akin to such a sight.
After a time, at Antoinette's conscientious suggestion, they strolled the way that St.George had taken.

And to Olivia and the missing adventurer over by the parapet came Amory's soft query: "St George, may I express a friendly concern ?" "Ah, come here, Toby," commanded St.George happily, "her Highness and I have been discussing matters of state." "Antoinette!" cried Olivia in amazement.