"I have been very amiable to-day, have I not?" Princess Mary said to me, with a forced smile, when we had returned from the walk. We separated. She is dissatisfied with herself. She accuses herself of coldness... Oh, that is the first, the chief triumph! To-morrow, she will be feeling a desire to recompense me. I know the whole proceeding by heart already—that is what is so tiresome!
