“Maurice lives his life loftily. He is one of the few great aristocrats I have met who carries his nobility of birth into his simplest thought and action. There is just one thing,” she added, “which would break his heart.”
“And that?”
“The subject upon which you two disagree—a war between Germany and this country.”
“The Prince is an idealist,” Dominey said. “Sometimes I wonder why he was sent here, why they did not send some one of a more intriguing character.”
She shrugged her shoulders.
“You agree with that great Frenchman,” she observed, “that no ambassador can remain a gentleman—politically.”
“Well, I have never been a diplomat, so I cannot say,” Dominey replied.
“You have many qualifications, I should think,” she observed cuttingly.
“Such as?”
“You are absolutely callous, absolutely without heart or sympathy where your work is concerned.”