The Princess gave a little cry.
“So you were not in love with the woman wearing only a pearl necklace?”
Lord Victor realised that he had fallen into that trap.
It was difficult to explain to this impulsive child that he had in point of fact hardly given a thought to Mimi after he left her.
If he went to Paris again, he would not make any effort to call on her.
She was indeed very experienced in every action that would attract and inflame a man, but it was all somehow very artificial and he frankly was not at all interested.
It was easier for him to remember Nancy Weldon, who was responsible for him being in this ship with the Princess.
“You are thinking of someone very nice,” the Princess remarked suddenly.
Lord Victor looked at her in astonishment.
“How could you possibly know th
