“I will tell her. She will like to know that.”
He stared at the girl aghast; then nipped one of her slender wrists.
“If you dare! Are you off your head?”
“Perhaps, monsieur. You see you startled me so.”
“I don’t believe a word of it. I believe this was premeditated.”
“Yes, that is quite true.”
“It was?”
“I saw you coming before you saw me. I thought I should like to be her Highness’s proxy for your attentions. I would have let you kiss me, if you had offered.”
He released her, and stepped back.
“You are certainly mad,” he exclaimed.