"A Liberal, you say?"
"Yes, your Holiness."
"The enmity of the Minister was the fruit of political warfare?"
"Nothing but that at first, though now...."
"I see, I see. And the secrets you speak of are only...."
"Only the doings of twenty years ago, which are dead and done with."
"Then your husband is older than you are?"
The young woman broke into a sunny smile, which set the Pope smiling.
"Only ten years older, your Holiness. He is thirty-four."