"Because—?"
"There is another. Pembroke, to-night will be pregnant with possibilities. You will see the woman you love and the woman I love."
"What do you mean?"
"Have you ever heard of her Serene Highness the Princess Hildegarde of
Hohenphalia?"
"So high?"
"Yes."
"Then the woman I saw in Vienna—"
"Was the Princess."
"But this remarkable likeness?"
"Perhaps I had best tell you all." And when I had done, his astonishment knew no bounds.