“But——”
I stopped the protest on her lips. Any lover knows how that has to be done. She laughed at my eagerness.
“Good, sweetheart. We’ll meet it all with a laugh as we agreed;” and not keeping the Prince waiting more than another quarter of an hour, I left her happy, blushing, loving—and resigned.
“I have appointed ten o’clock,” he said as I joined him.
“Very well.” I should have said “very well” if he had named midnight or four in the morning.
“I wish you to understand that I shall do all I can to help you—now,” he said pointedly.
“That’s all right.” My head was still in the clouds. In an hour or so Helga would be my wife.
“I shall wish to know where you will be.”
“God bless my soul, I hadn’t thought about that,” I exclaimed. “We shall stay at the Imperial. Oh, and I’ve no clothes. They are at the Palace. You see it’s a little sudden.”
“My man, Pierre, is at your service, monsieur.”