He may have learned that Sir Max is the Count of Hapsburg.

Max is all business.

Max was seventeen, a selfish, overbearing prig of a boy, fully persuaded of his superiority over his mother and sisters, and entirely willing that the family should toil unceasingly for his advancement.

"That isn't your weakness, Max, it's your strength," I responded.

That's where Max is, Ingrid's son."

Her Grace thought that she herself was religious and tried to impress that belief on others; but Max was her god.

" "Max isn't the sort to care for it either.

" Roland appeared to be deeply affected when he heard this, for he winked violently a good many times, and then, smiling, managed to say: "You don't know how happy you make me when you tell that, Max; for she's a dear old soul, and I certainly do care for her a great deal.

If by any chance some meddlesome body should see it and tell this arrogant lady of the castle that I have the keepsake she sent you, there would be trouble, Max, there would be trouble.

In-born motives in a conscientious person are stubborn tyrants, and Max was their slave.

I am sure that he will now receive the Count of Hapsburg graciously if you tell him that Sir Max is that person.

Max is thunder-truck.

I wish to warn you that the deception practised upon Max by Yolanda will seem almost impossible, except on the hypothesis that Max was a very simple fellow.

This was heavy for fifteen, but Max was game.

When Max was a child, the pleasure of his amusements was smothered by officialism.

Of all these painful conditions young Max was a suffering victim.