"The view from here, I think, is very beautiful," she remarked, incoherently.
"No doubt," agreed the Prince, but he didn't take the trouble to look at it.
"He's a survival of the dark ages," said Susie to herself, "when they just snatched up girls and ran off with them!" Then aloud, "Have you ever been here before?"
"Never before."
"Do you like it?"
"Oh, very much!" His eyes would have told her why; but she could guess without looking.
"I suppose you usually go to one of the larger places?"
"It is one of the traditions of our family that at least a month must be spent at Ostend."
"What a shame that the tradition should be broken!"
"On the contrary, I bless the circumstance that shattered it. Do you know, Miss Rushford, I have never before realised what a tremendously lucky fellow I am? I must pour a libation to the god of chance!"