“Oh!” she gasped with a little sob, while her face grew scarlet. “You knew all the time? It was horrid of me—too horrid to think of. Oh——”
At this point it seemed to me that she was looking for a spot to hide her face, and, taking base advantage of her confusion, I drew her into my arms and let her blushes fly to cover against my coat. Never before, in my opinion, had the King’s uniform been so highly honoured.
“To my window you came that night, my lady,” I whispered, “but it was to the door of my heart you came.”
Printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.
Transcriber’s Notes
Illustrations which were line-drawings had page numbers which were not printed; illustrations which were more complex had no numbers and had facing blank pages. This accounts for the oddities in page numbering.
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected silently. Less obvious ones which were changed are:
page [9], latter was replaced by letter
page [18], drawing-toom was replaced by drawing-room
page [153], Twen- at end of a line and not finished on next line was replaced by Twentieth