Gradually the meaning of her simple, though significant remark filtered through his brain.
"Never comes to Graustark ?" he almost whispered.

"You don't--you can't mean your--your husband ?" "I mean Count Marlanx," she said steadily.
"He means evil to Prince Robin?
Good Heavens, Countess, I--I can't believe it.

I know he is bitter, revengeful, and all that, but--" "He is all that and more," she said.

"First, you must let me impress you that I am not a traitor to his cause.

I could not be that, for the sufficient reason that I only suspect its existence.