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 —[Without conviction.] Certainly, certainly.

—It was a charming gesture on Alexandra's part. I am truly proud that throughout the entire episode she conducted herself just as you yourself would have done. We may all be proud of her. [As he speaks gives him furtive, grateful glances.]

—A splendid girl. A girl of spirit! [Majestically.] Happy the people who get such a queen.

— And if you want to know—I kissed the poor fellow myself.

—You were right. Louis XVI., after his wife's recovery from a dangerous confinement, kissed a nurse. [Emphatically.] Such things happen. [After a brief pause.] So that was the terrible thing?

—Yes, that was it. [Points to .] She fainted dead away. But she she was angry with the professor anyhow.

—[Quite reassured now.] I? I look upon it in the same light as Dominica does. Only I wasn't sure she would see it the way I did.

—She is angry with the tutor on account of Napoleon. He teaches the boys that

—Can't you bear him, either, this Napoleon?