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The Duke drove down to the House, but called first in Downing Street. He found the Prime Minister anxious to see him. "You've arranged about Maiyo coming down to you next week?" he asked. "That's all right," the Duke answered. "He is coming, for certain. One good thing about that young man he never breaks an engagement." The Prime Minister consulted a calendar which lay open before him.
She sat listening with the air of one half afraid, who has no hope of hearing pleasant things. "It has been remarked," Mr. Harvey continued, "or rather I may say that I myself have noticed, that you are on exceedingly friendly terms with a very distinguished nobleman who is at present visiting this country I mean, of course, Prince Maiyo." Her eyebrows were slowly elevated.
"I am to let no one know where I am, to write no letters, to receive none? My duties are to be simply to treat you?" "When required," the Prince remarked dryly. "I suppose," the doctor asked, "my friend Mr. Jacks was speaking the truth when he told me your name?" "My name is Prince Maiyo," the Prince said. Mechanically the doctor helped himself to another whiskey and soda.
Prince Maiyo left Devenham House to find the stars paling in the sky, and the light of an April dawn breaking through the black clouds eastwards. He dismissed his electric brougham with a little wave of the hand, and turned to walk to his house in St. James's Square. As he walked, he bared his head.
"There is another matter I'd like to talk to you about, and there's nowhere better than the streets for a little conversation. Besides, I need the air." "With pleasure," the Duke answered, who loathed walking. He directed his coachman to precede them, and they started off, arm in arm. "Devenham," the Prime Minister said, "we were speaking, a few minutes ago, of Prince Maiyo.
I should like to know what attitude Prince Maiyo takes towards the proposed renewal of the treaty between his country and Great Britain." She shook her head. "Even if we were friends," she said, "the very closest of friends, he would never tell me. He is far too clever." "Do not be too sure," Mr. Harvey said.
A patriot will lie and intrigue for his country's sake. Now I believe that to Prince Maiyo Japan stands far above the whole world of womankind. I believe that for her sake he would go to very great lengths indeed." "Go on, please," Penelope murmured. "The Prince is over here on some sort of an errand which it isn't our business to understand," Mr. Harvey said.
Can't you understand," she added, speaking in a tone of greater intensity, "that that is why I hate him? Hush!" She gripped his sleeve warningly. There was suddenly the murmur of voices and the trailing of skirts. A little party seemed to have invaded the winter garden a little party of the principal guests. The Duchess herself came first, and her fingers were resting upon the arm of Prince Maiyo.
I want you clearly to understand how I am placed, supposing a distinguished member of my household supposing even you, Prince Maiyo were to come within the arm of the law. Even the great claims of hospitality would leave me powerless." "This," the Prince admitted, "I fully apprehend. It is surely reasonable that the stranger in your country should be subject to your laws."
Prince Maiyo may take home with him many Western treasures, but I do not think that he will take home a wife." "If you say another word to me, aunt," Penelope exclaimed, "I shall shriek!" The Duchess, being a woman of tact, laughed the subject away and pretended not to notice Penelope's real distress. But when they had reached Devenham House, she went to the telephone and called up Somerfield.
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