“Yes, I remember it.”
“Well, I am eighteen years old now and I have not changed my mind. Will you marry me?”
Very lately my admirer has repeated his declaration that he will never marry. He is thirty years old to-day, and who knows, perhaps the man’s heart has remained the same as the heart of the boy of nine.
XIV
PRINCESS MARIE
IT was the evening of my first appearance at Bucharest.
Some one came to tell me that the Prince and Princess Royal were in the royal box.
After the performance they sent an officer to tell me how greatly my dances had interested them. They promised to come again and, as they wanted their children to see me, they asked if I would not give a matinee.
I was in the act of putting on my clothes.
It was impossible for me to receive the officer, who accordingly gave the message from their Royal Highnesses to my maid.
Next day I wrote to Princess Marie to thank her, and proposed to give a performance at the palace, if that seemed to her desirable.