"I mean do you remember the circumstances which have most attracted the public attention, not on the stage, but amongst the auditory?"
"Why, first there was Madame Girard's strange head-dress."
"Yes, the sobieska, certainly; and then?"
Bertha was so far from expecting what her husband was about to say to her, that she reflected a minute or so before she replied,—
"I do not know; was it the Marquise de Luceval?"
"You are, at the same time, drawing nearer to the truth and the box of the person to whom I allude."
"In what way?"
"In the next box to Madame de Luceval do you not remember a very handsome foreign princess, of whom all the world was speaking in terms of admiration?"
"A foreign princess!" repeated Bertha mechanically, whilst her heart was struck with an indefinable presentiment.
"Yes, the Princess de Hansfeld."