This was Princess Myakaya, noted for her simplicity and the roughness of her manners, and nicknamed _enfant terrible_.
Princess Myakaya, sitting in the middle between the two groups, and listening to both, took part in the conversation first of one and then of the other.
" Three people have used that very phrase about Kaulbach to me today already, just as though they had made a compact about it.
And I can't see why they liked that remark so.
" The conversation was cut short by this observation, and a new subject had to be thought of again.