"Heydey!" said the Grand Duke; "it seems, that the legal representative of our good Baroness, also, is imperative."  
"Your Highness!" cried the Baroness, and she, too, dropped her burden.
 
"Every one," said the Grand Duke, "appears to question my identity." And meantime de Châteauroux turned from the one to the other in bewilderment.
 
"This," said the Grand Duke, after a pause, "is painful. This is unworthy of you, de Châteauroux."
 
"Your Highness—!" cried the Count.
 
"Again?" said the Grand Duke, pettishly.
 
The Baroness applied her handkerchief to her eyes, and plaintively said,
"You do not understand, your Highness—"
 
"I am afraid," said the Grand Duke, "that I understand only too clearly."
 
"—and I confess I was here to meet Monsieur de Châteauroux—"
 
"Oh, oh!" cried the latter.
 
"Precisely," observed the Grand Duke, "to compare portmanteaux; and you had selected the interior of yonder carriage, no doubt, as an appropriate locality."
 
"And I admit to your Highness—"
 
"His Highness already knowing," the Grand Duke interpolated.
 
"—that we were about to elope."
 
"I can assure you—" de Châteauroux began.
 
"Nay, I will take the lady's word for it," said the Grand Duke—"though it grieves me."
 
"We knew you—would ne............