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Updated: May 16, 2025
And, through Dehra's talk, I detected the laughing answer, pitched high enough to reach me: "'Curious' is quite too mild a word, Sire." Then, as the King began the story, she glanced over at me and I nodded my thanks. It would have been a bit awkward, just then, if she had shown she already knew my history. To-morrow it mattered not to me if it were known the Kingdom over; aye, and farther, too.
I would have to admit knowing her; that would only whet their curiosity and bring further questions. To tell the whole story was absurd and, yet, only a little of it would leave a rather unpleasant inference against me. At any rate, on Dehra's account, I did not want the matter discussed. I could feel Lotzen's glance, and I knew he was waiting only for a break in Lady Radnor's discourse.
"There, sir," said he, "you see what an unreasonable little woman you're seeking to marry." I leaned forward and took Dehra's hand. "I think I rather like this particular sort of unreasonableness," I said. Then, to her, I added: "But I must endorse His Majesty's second condition." She frowned; then seated herself on one end of the high writing table.
Frederick, however, was on the point of asking an explanation when the Princess gave him a glance, and he instantly dropped the matter and motioned us to our seats. Mine was on Dehra's right; Courtney's on her left. Presently, I heard the King say to Lady Helen: "Come, confess you are curious how the American military attaché becomes a Valerian Archduke?"
If I thought she were, there would be no betrothal." Dehra's small foot began to tap the floor. "I have told Armand I don't care a rap for that woman," she answered. "And if, as Your Majesty admits, she is not his wife, why should she be permitted to control the situation to her own liking?" The King looked at me with an amused smile.
I had the grace to keep silent or, maybe, I was too surprised to know an answer. I did not have the courage to meet her eyes. I stared into the audience, seeing no one, thinking much hoping she would speak; but she did not. Presently I turned, looking like a whipped child, I know, and met Dehra's smiling face. "Tie my slipper, dear," she said, "the ribbon has come undone." "You sweetheart!"
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