But it was a very pleasant wild goose chase; she was very well content to be walking with him through this pleasant sunny land.

When presently he turned the talk to matters more personal to her, she liked it better still.
He was very sympathetic: he sympathized with her in her annoyance at having had to waste so much of the summer on this tiresome _corvee_ of acting as lady-in-waiting on the little princess; for, thanks to the domineering jealousy of the baroness, it had been a tiresome _corvee_ indeed, instead of the pleasant occupation it might have been.

He sympathized with her in her vexation that she had been prevented by that jealousy from improving the health or spirits of the princess.
He was warmly indignant when she told him of the behavior of the baroness and the archduke during the last few days.

The baroness had tried to lay the blame of the disappearance of the princess on her; and the archduke, a vast, sun-shaped, billowy mass of fat, infuriated at having been torn from the summer ease of his Schloss to dash to England, had been very rude indeed.

She was much pleased by the warmth of Sir Maurice's indignation; but she protested against his making any attempt to punish them, for she did not see how he could do it, without harming himself.