"You are quite right. But
the temptation was very great, and I wanted to know so badly. I beg you
to believe that I regretted it an instant later. I do not want that you
should think of me as like that!"
"Perhaps I would better not think of you at all," ventured Sue. Ah, what
a fascination there is in fire!
"That would be still more unbearable!" he protested; his eyes were very
bright and he was bending down a little that he might the better see the
face under the broad hat.
"The view from here, I think, is very beautiful," she remarked,
incoherently.
"No doubt," agreed the Prince, but he didn't take the trouble to look at
it.
"He's a survival of the dark ages," said Susie to herself, "when they
just snatched up girls and ran off with them!" Then aloud, "Have you
ever been here before?"
"Never before."
"Do you like it?"
"Oh, very much!" His eyes would have told her why; but she could guess
without looking.
"I suppose you usually go to one of the larger places?"
"It is one of the traditions of our family that at least a month must be
spent at Ostend."
"What a shame that the tradition should be broken!"
"On the contrary, I bless the circumstance that shattered it. Do you
know, Miss Rushford, I have never before realised what a tremendously
lucky fellow I am? I must pour a libation to the god of chance!"
"It's a goddess, isn't it?" she asked, and regretted the question the
next instant.
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