“And now the great question—the Princess?”
He paused and looked at me. “Would she leave with you?”
“Would she be allowed to leave?”
“She would be allowed to escape,” he answered. “If she remains, she will be placed in confinement; and if the army’s plans go right, she will be sent out of the country. The Queen’s sisters have been placed in similar confinement; and they too will be liberated and exiled unless trouble comes. If that happens, the Princess would be again in imminent peril. She would be a menace to the only real solution of the crisis—the change of dynasty. And the army have given stern enough proofs of its resolve in that matter. It has already decided upon the future King—Peter Karageorgevics.”
“Can I speak to her alone?”
“Yes! tell her what I have just said; and if you have any influence with her use every shred of it to prevail upon her to go. You will be doing not only her a service but the country also. I will return in an hour or so to learn the result.”
“If she refuses to go?”
He threw up his hands. “There will be only one course open.”
“Arrest?”
“Arrest, yes; with all its possibilities.”