“What does it matter where the Doctor is?”
My friend looked at me with an oddly mingled expression of doubt and surprise. “Do you really not understand me?” he said.
“I don’t indeed.”
“My dear Ernest, you are a rare and admirable example to the rest of us—you are a truly modest man.”
What did he mean?
V.
EVENTS followed, on the next day, which (as will presently be seen) I have a personal interest in relating.
The Baroness left us suddenly, on leave of absence. The Prince wearied of his residence in the country; and the Court returned to the capital. The charming Princess was reported to be “indisposed,” and retired to the seclusion of her own apartments.
A week later, I received a note f rom the Baroness, marked “private and confidential.” It informed me that she had resumed her d
