"Who's that? Why? Wait a moment!" Anatole's face seemed to say.

Princess Mary looked at them in silence.

She could not understand it.

At last Mademoiselle Bourienne gave a scream and ran away.

Anatole bowed to Princess Mary with a gay smile, as if inviting her to join in a laugh at this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door that led to his own apartments.