She turned very red, and then very white. But she restrained herself.
“And the other?”
“His Royal Highness requests that you will avail yourself of my escort for an immediate return to Glottenberg.”
“And his reasons?”
“Oh, madame, as if I should inquire them!”
“You are merely insolent, sir. I shall not go to-night.”
“His Royal Highness was very urgent.”
She looked at me for a moment.
“Why had Lord Daynesborough to leave so suddenly?” she asked suspiciously.