"A graceful head, a very graceful head," he remarked, returning the coin. "I should like to hear more of the fair lady."
"As many questions as you please."
"First, where did the Princess Natalie pass her childhood and youth?"
"Here in the city of Slavowitz and its vicinity. Of course she has had her travels like the rest of us, and has visited different European countries, but, speaking generally, she was reared and educated in the Vistula Palace, whose towers you can see rising behind yon cathedral spire."
Clearly not Barbara, for Barbara had spent her earlier years at Warsaw, her later in the Illyrian Convent of the Holy Sacrament.
"And what of her visit to Dalmatia?"
"That was undertaken two and a half years ago; at that time she was in a delicate state of health, and the physicians recommended a tour around the Adriatic. She travelled incognito with a slender suite under the care of Cardinal Ravenna."
"Who took her, among other places," thought Paul, "to Castel Nuovo, as is proved by the fragment of lace in the secret corridor."
"This tour was productive of singular results," continued Trevisa, musingly.