“If she said that,” Carmela said, “then I am sure she really loves you.”
“Do you think so?” the Prince asked eagerly.
“But of course!” Carmela replied. “If a woman really loves a man with her whole heart, she tries to do what is right for him, whatever the sacrifice for herself.”
She was sure as she spoke that for any woman, especially one who was French belonging to a race always very conscious of rank and title, to give up a throne could mean only one thing - Gabrielle loved the Prince too much to hurt him.
‘It is what I would feel myself,’ Carmela thought, and she went on:
“What you must do is to go back to the woman you love and ask her if she is brave enough to face those of your countrymen who will still be hostile to France, and help you to set things to rights in your own way.
