"I may not score the success you expect this afternoon." "My dear boy, a minor crowned head from across the sea is coming to hear you play, and that alone will count as a success with most of your listeners.

Also, I've secured a real Duchess for you, which is rather an achievement in the London of to-day." "An English Duchess ?" asked Ronnie, who had early in life learned to apply the Merchandise Marks Act to ducal titles.
"English, oh certainly, at least as far as the title goes; she was born under the constellation of the Star-spangled Banner.

I don't suppose the Duke approves of her being here, lending her countenance to the fait accompli, but when you've got republican blood in your veins a Kaiser is quite as attractive a lodestar as a King, rather more so.

And Canon Mousepace is coming," continued Cicely, referring to a closely-written list of guests; "the excellent von Tolb has been attending his church lately, and the Canon is longing to meet her.

She is just the sort of person he adores.