The Frenchman regarded him out of narrowed eyes, and asked again, with equal abruptness—
“Have you seen the Prince of Orange?”
“No.”
“But you have heard, since you have been at the Hague, a great deal of him?”
“I have heard of him,” answered Florent.
St. Croix laid down his pipe.
“You have drawn your own conclusions, of course,” he said. “You were always shrewd.”
Florent was flattered and excited; he managed to show neither feeling.
“I have drawn some conclusions,” was all he admitted.