She was her late Highness's hair-dresser." "And the Princess Hildegarde ?" "She is a woman for whom I would gladly lay down my life." "Yes, yes!" I said impatiently.

"Who made her the woman she is?
Who taught her to shoot and fence ?" "It was I." "You ?" "Yes.

From childhood she has been under my care.

Her mother did so desire.

She is all I have in the world to love.