I suggested whether I could not remain in the background and look after the Duke as a kind of upper nurse,--but Lady Glencora said it would not do." "Why should you subject yourself to such indignity ?" "Simply from love of the man.

But you see I was not subjected.

For two days I wore my jewels beneath royal eyes,--eyes that will sooner or later belong to absolute majesty.

It was an awful bore, and I ought to have been at Vienna.

You ask me why I did it.