She might not have been put together strictly according to mode, but she
was learning rapidly, and willing to learn more rapidly.
XI
AN OUTING--A REUNION
The Secretary of the Legation at Washington was surprised to receive a
letter from the Governor-General of Morovenia requesting him to find
apartments for the Princess Kalora and a small retinue. The letter
explained that the Governor-General's daughter had been given a long
sea-voyage and assigned to a period of residence within the quiet
boundaries of Washington, in the hope that her health might be improved.
The Secretary looked up the list of hotels and boarding-houses. He did
not deem it advisable to send a convalescent to one of the large and
busy hotels; neither did he think it proper to reserve rooms for her at
an ordinary boarding-house, where she would sit at the same table with
department-employees and congressmen. So he compromised on a very
exclusive hotel patronized by legislators who had money of their own, by
many of the titled attaches of the embassies, and by families that came
during the season with the hope of edging their way into official
society. He explained to the manager of the hotel that the Princess
Kalora was an invalid, would require secluded apartments, and probably
would not care to meet any of the other persons living at the hotel.
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