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The action threatened is against Madame Ypsilante." "Don't say shop lifting," said Gorman. "I've always been afraid she's take to that sooner or later. Not that she's a dishonest woman. Don't think that. It's simply that she can't understand, is constitutionally incapable of seeing any reason why she shouldn't have anything she wants." "You may make your mind easy," said Dane-Latimer.
If that Emperor of yours really enjoys a rag with a woman like Madame Ypsilante I should have thought a man in his position wouldn't care to be mixed up in the sort of scene there will certainly be." Steinwitz stiffened visibly. His hair always stands upright on his head. It actually bristled while Gorman was speaking. "I do not," he said, "discuss the Emperor in that way.
"The Emperor," said the King, "has said to me, 'Buy back the island or else marry the American. In that way also Salissa would return to the Crown of Megalia." Gorman fully expected that Madame Ypsilante would at once have broken every glass on the table. It would not have surprised him in the least if she had torn handfuls of hair off the King's head. To his amazement she laughed.
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