But not now." "I shall remind you of that promise, Prince," she declared.
"I will not fail to keep it," he replied.

"You have, at least," he added after a moment's pause, "one great claim upon happiness.

You are the son and the daughter of kindred races." She looked at him as though not quite understanding.
"I was thinking," he continued simply, "of my own father and mother.

My father was a Japanese nobleman, with the home call of all the centuries strong in his blood.

He was an enlightened man, but he saw nothing in the manner of living or the ideals of other countries to compare with those of the country of his own birth.