He smiled at her in a knowing manner, and Jeanne looked away to hide her disgust.
"Your interest in sport," she remarked, "seems to be a sort of second-hand one, does it not?"
"I do not know that," he answered. "I do not know quite what you mean. At Ostend last year I won the great sweepstakes."
"For shooting pigeons?" she asked.
"So!" he admitted, with content.
She smiled.
"I see that I must beg your pardon," she said. "Have you ever done any big game shooting?"
He shook his head.
"I do not like to travel very much," he answered. "I do not like the cooking, and I think that my tastes are what you would call very civilized."
The Princess intervened. She felt that it was necessary at any cost to do so.