The Damsel Who Bound

"I knew without asking the lady was niece to an emperor and reputed as haughty and cruel, as though she had been one of the worst herself. Yet i somehow felt her ladyship was in a fine passion behind that disdainful mask," he writes. "No fancy of mine is so rash, but that fate will countersign it." He adds: 'Having once thus bawked the truth, never afterwards told her the real facts'