At dinner time he was even more certain of it.
She asked him about his horses.
And what he was doing for the young people in the Cities and if they had developed anything new in the way of industry.
The Prince knew when he replied to her questions that she was not really interested in the answers. They meant nothing to her.
At the same time he told himself it was a good effort on the Comte’s part and he would congratulate him later on for being, if nothing else, a good tutor.
Again at the Comte’s suggestion they danced after dinner. This was a change from sitting talking which the Prince usually preferred.
The band had obviously been instructed to provide new tunes for the dances and the Princess was a very good dancer and the Prince then ‘opened the ball’, as it might mockingly have
