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Updated: May 29, 2025
"Do you make a practice," asked she, "of appropriating people's handkerchiefs?" "Certain people's yes," unblushing, he promptly owned. "M.D. under a princely crown, I think you said?" she mused. "It occurs to me that Maria Dolores of Zelt-Neuminster's pocket-handkerchiefs might be so embroidered." "Ah?" said John. "Zelt-Neuminster? That would be a daughter of the man who owns this Castle?"
The lady paused; then, with that smile of hers which we know, that smile which went as an advance-guard to disarm resentment, "People of my age are allowed to be inquisitive," she premised. "I have introduced myself to you won't you introduce yourself to me?" "My name is Maria Dolores of Zelt-Neuminster," answered the person questioned, also smiling.
"I wonder," said John, "that the people who own it never live here." "The Prince of Zelt-Neuminster?" said she. "No, he doesn't like the Italian Government. Since Lombardy passed from Austria to Italy, the family have entirely given up staying at Sant' Alessina." "In those circumstances," said John, "practical-minded people, I should think, would get rid of the place."
"Does the Prince of Zelt-Neuminster take in boarders?" she inquired, her nose in the air. "Not exactly," said John. "But the Parroco of Sant' Alessina does. I board at the presbytery." "Oh," said Lady Blanchemain, beginning to see light, while her eyebrows went up, went down. "You board at the presbytery?" "For six francs fifty a day wine included," chuckled John.
And as for the creature in shoulder-knots, what becomes of the rights of man or the bases of civil society, if you can't snub a creature whom you regularly tip? "And tries to shoo intrusive trippers from your threshold and gets an extra plateful for his pains," laughed the lady. "Where," she asked, "does the Prince of Zelt-Neuminster keep himself?" "In Vienna, I believe.
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