He shook hands with Martin and Wanda and then with the prince.

"You met him in London, you say?" he said to the prince. "What did you
think of him?"

"I thought him--a quiet man."

"And Wanda?" continued Kosmaroff, lightly, turning to her--"she who sees
so much. What did she think of him?"

"I was afraid of him!"




XI

AN AGREEMENT TO DIFFER

The Saxon Gardens are in the heart of Warsaw, and, in London, would be
called a park. At certain hours the fashionable world promenades beneath
the trees, and at all times there is a thoroughfare across from one
quarter of the town to another.

Wanda often sat there in the morning or walked slowly with her father
at such times as the doctor's instructions to take exercise were still
fresh upon his memory. There are seats beneath the trees, overlooking
the green turf and the flowers so dear to the Slavonian soul. Later in
the morning these seats are occupied by nurses and children, as in any