'We are interested in this affair ourselves, you know.

It began at our hotel--you mustn't forget that, Prince.' 'I don't,' he said.

'I forget nothing.

But I cannot help feeling that I have led you into a strange entanglement.

Why should you and Mr Racksole be here--you who are supposed to be on a holiday!--hiding in a strange house in a foreign country, subject to all sorts of annoyances and all sorts of risks, simply because I am anxious to avoid scandal, to avoid any sort of talk, in connection with my misguided nephew?
It is nothing to you that the Hereditary Prince of Posen should be liable to a public disgrace.