" She stopped abruptly, longing to ask his help, yet withheld by a sudden sense of shyness in approaching the subject, though she had decided to speak to Karl of the Pole.

You will marry Prince Karl in June, and all the rest of your life will be bleak December.

" "I have explained," said Karl with infinite gentleness.

" "Have in Karl at once, for if I wear this lovely thing long I shall not be able to let it go at all.

" "And your father, Master Gerard, would have my son engage with this Prince Karl for a space.

It was the clipping from a Paris newspaper, announcing that the Princess Genevra was to wed Prince Karl during the Christmas holidays.

Papa von Ludwig objects so violently to all this love-making that he eventually succumbs to a regular East-Prussian stroke of apoplexy which all but leads to a charge of parricide against Karl by his base brother, Wilhelm.

As a matter of fact, in trying to kick Prince Karl out of your life, I kicked myself into it.

Leave Karl to me, uncle.

To the hatred which they have come to bear Karl as members of a strike directed against him, they now add the element of personal jealousy.