"Yes, your highness," said Ellos, and he went away with his head
swimming. Max, the other guard, received like orders and then the two
young women sank limply upon a divan.
"Oh, how clever you are, Yetive," came from the American girl. "But what
next?"
"We may expect to hear something disagreeable from Count Marlanx, my
dear," murmured the perplexed, but confident princess, "but I think we
have the game in our own hands, as you would say in America."