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 graphed me yesterday that he didn't trust himself to speak to you about Alexandra without me. You know he never makes a step without me.

—A good, dutiful son.

—Yes, so he is. [Majestically.] Happy the people who get such a king But there! He asked me to come at once so that he might tell her how enchanted he is with her. [Both rise, embrace and kiss each other, then sit down.]

—Oh, my dear Dominica!

—I don't wonder. She is such a perfect creature,—beautiful, good, clever and queenly. That is what I admire most about her—her proud, imperious ways.

—How nice of you to say so!

—Haven't you noticed that in the past ten years our young women have become infected with a certain rather vulgar freedom of manner, imported from foreign countries? Not she. She is grave, majestic, aloof, perhaps a bit too aloof I mean a bit too cold toward her inferiors.

—Cold? Oh, I wouldn't say that.

—That is precisely what I admire in her.

—She has altered of late. She is quite warm to her inferiors now.

—To think that the desire of my