Page 7 (1/2)

"Ah, I can't bear to hear you!" said the prince gloo anxious to get away, yet

stopping in the doorway "There are laws, ed me to it, I'll tell you who's to blaainst such young

gallants there have always been, and there still are! Yes, if

there has been nothing that ought not to have been, old as I a dandy Yes,

and now you physic her and call in these quacks"

The prince apparently had plenty more to say, but as soon as the

princess heard his tone she subsided at once, and became

penitent, as she always did on serious occasions

"Alexander, Alexander," she whispered, an to cry the prince too calh, that's enough! You're wretched too, I

know It can't be helped There's no great har what he was saying, as

he responded to the tearful kiss of the princess that he felt on

his hand And the prince went out of the room

Before this, as soon as Kitty went out of the room in tears,

Dolly, with her motherly, family instincts, had promptly