Obedience did not go so far, however, as to require that a wife obtain her husband’s permission to leave the country; that had once been the case, but it was no longer so.

One fact, at least, would have been perfectly plain to an outsider, had any such person been on the spot; and that was, that the prince had made a very considerable impression upon the family, in spite of the fact that he had but once been inside the house, and then only for a short time. Of course, if analyzed, this impression might have proved to be nothing more than a feeling of curiosity;