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"Yes," replied Dorothy, with serene confidence, "I should be very much obliged if Captain Kempt would obtain for me a card of invitation to the ball on the 'Consternation." "Really!" gasped Sabina, "and may not my mother supplement my father's efforts by providing you with a ball dress for the occasion?" "I could not think of troubling her, Miss Kempt.
The room was all soft green and gray: green rep chairs and sofa, green topped library table; green piano cover; green inside blinds; a green velvet grape leaf border around the gray papered walls. Sabina, though a very elegant housemaid, patronized and approved cheerfully. She was satisfied with the new home. There had not been a word of leaving since it was decided upon. She had her reasons.
I must and I will, before I die, be a mother, be called mother and be able to say, 'my child, my son our son." And as she spoke she sobbed aloud and covered her face with her hands. The Emperor drew back a step from his wife. A miracle had been wrought before his eyes. Sabina in whose eyes no tear had ever been seen Sabina was weeping, Sabina had a heart like other women.
Besides, she had not confessed, and it seemed as if, in feeling the young heretic's kiss an honour, she were adding to the burden which had not yet been removed from her conscience. Yet she could not overcome an emotion of rare pleasure when Frau Sabina, after beckoning to her husband, took her hand and led her into the reception room.
Had Sabina been no more than engaged, he must strongly have urged Raymond to drop her and endure the harsh criticism that would have followed: for an engagement broken appeared a lesser evil than an unhappy mating; but since the position was complicated, he could not feel so and stoutly upheld the marriage on principle, while extremely doubtful of its practical outcome.
The Princess had come back, and wished to see Sabina that very morning, and Sabina could not be found. She sank into a chair, and her sallow face expressed the utmost fright and perplexity. "Sassi left our house at five o'clock with Sabina," said the Baron, "and at a quarter to six he was taken from the door of this palace to the hospital by Malipieri's man.
The roof of the hall in which the prefect found the Empress, in summer was open to the sky; but at this season was suitably covered in by a movable copper roof, partly to keep off the rain of the Alexandrian winter, and partly too because, even in the warmer season Sabina was wont to complain of cold; but beneath it a wide opening allowed the air free entrance and exit.
But jokes are a mistake with most people. I came to answer your letter in person and to have a talk with you." "Won't you have anything to eat, ma'am? We've just finished dinner; but, if there's anything we can get" Sabina was evidently inclined to be obsequious "an egg, or a chop, or a cup of tea " "No, I don't want anything. Who is this Mr. Reuben Dare?" "That's what I want to know, ma'am!"
"Did he tell you how it happened that I could not get home?" she asked, almost calmly. "No one has told me anything. Your mother arrived in Rome last night. She is at the Russian Embassy and wishes to see you at eleven o'clock." "My mother?" Sabina raised herself on one hand in surprise. "Yes. And I find you here."
"Quite true, quite true," repeated Sassi sadly. "And if Donna Sabina were to call them to account, I fancy the law would take a rather unpleasant view of what they did. I have heard that sort of thing called stealing when the persons who did it were not princes and princesses, but plain people like you and me. Do you happen to think of any better word?" Sassi was silent.
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