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Updated: June 13, 2025
She talked pleasantly to Somerfield, who tried to be dignified and succeeded only in remaining sulky. Chance had placed her at some distance from the Prince, to whom Lady Grace was talking with a subdued softness in her manner which puzzled Captain Wilmot, her neighbor on the other side.
"And then," Penelope continued, with the air of not having heard her companion's last remark, "he possesses also a very great attraction. He is absolutely unlike any other human being I ever met or heard of." Somerfield glanced across at his rival with lowering brows.
"I must wish you every happiness," he said slowly. "Indeed, that wish comes from my heart, and I think that you know it. As for Sir Charles Somerfield, I cannot imagine that he has anything left in the world to wish for." "You are a born courtier, Prince," she murmured. "Please remember that in my democratic country one has never had a chance of getting used to such speeches."
"Where I ought to be," Penelope said, turning toward the door, "only I felt that I must see you first." "I will not come with you," Mr. Harvey said. "There is no need for our little conference to become the subject of comment. By the bye," he added, "let me take this opportunity of wishing you every happiness. I haven't seen Somerfield yet, but he is a lucky fellow.
Of course, they look upon this sort of thing more lightly in his own country, but, after all, he was no fool. He knew his risks." Penelope spoke for the first time since they had left Devenham. "If you begin to talk like that, Charlie," she said, "I shall ask the Duchess to stop the car and put you down here in the road." Somerfield laughed, not altogether pleasantly.
That would be natural enough with a tribe so concerned about the family birth rate. But it made me sorter mad to hear the natives everlastingly accusing Somerfield of being an undesirable. But they never let up trying to educate him and make him a Tlinga citizen. They were patient and persistent enough. On the other hand, I was looked on as a model young man, and received into the best society.
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.
"Well," Somerfield said, "if he is really going " "Charlie," she interrupted, "if ever you expect me to marry you, I make one condition, and that is that you never say a single word against Prince Maiyo." "The man whom a month ago," he remarked curiously, "you hated!" She shook her head. "I was an idiot," she said. "I did not understand him and I was prejudiced against his country."
I do not know what is usual." "Anything you like," Somerfield answered, "from ten pounds to a hundred." "One hundred, we will say one hundred, then," the Prince declared. "My mount against yours. So!" He threw off his overcoat, and they saw for the first time that he was dressed in English riding clothes of dark material, but absolutely correct cut.
"There wasn't much kicking over the traces with poor old Fynes," he said. "He hadn't got it in him." Somerfield scratched his chin thoughtfully and looked at Penelope. "Scarcely seems possible, does it," he remarked, "that a man leading such a quiet sort of life should make enemies." "I don't believe he had any," Mr. Coulson asserted. "He didn't seem nervous on the way over, did he?"
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