The moment he was settled in it Miss Lambart sprang to the seat beside the driver, and insisted on keeping it that she might the more easily direct his course.
They were not long reaching the wood; and the chauffeur raised no objection to taking the car up the broad turfed aisle from which ran the path to the knoll.

At the entrance of it the count stepped out of the car; and the archduke gave him his final instructions with the air of a Roman father; he was to bring the princess in any fashion, but he was to bring her at once.
In a last generous outburst he cried: "Pooll 'er by the ear! Bud breeng 'er." The count said that he would, and entered the path with a resolute and martial air.

Miss Lambart was not impressed by it.

She thought that in his tight-fitting clothes of military cut and his apparently tighter-fitting patent leather boots he looked uncommonly out of place under the green wood trees.

She remembered how lightly the Twins and the princess went; and she had the poorest expectation of his getting near any of them.