I have no right to say it.' 'Why have you no right to say it ?' 'If Eugen dies, I shall owe a duty to Posen--I shall be its ruler.' 'Well!' she said calmly, with an adorable confidence.

'Papa is worth forty millions.

Would you not abdicate ?' 'Ah!' he gave a low cry.

'Will you force me to say these things?
I could not shirk my duty to Posen, and the reigning Prince of Posen can only marry a Princess.' 'But Prince Eugen will live,' she said positively, 'and if he lives--' 'Then I shall be free.

I would renounce all my rights to make you mine, if--if--' 'If what, Prince ?' 'If you would deign to accept my hand.' 'Am I, then, rich enough ?' 'Nella!' He bent down to her.
Then there was a crash of breaking glass.