But he dissociated her from her father's schemes altogether. No doubt
she was moved by the generous enthusiasm of a young girl. She had a
warm, human, sympathetic heart; the cry of the poor and the suffering
appealed to her; and she was confident in the success of projects of
which she had been prudently kept ignorant. This was George Brand's
reading. He would not have Natalie Lind associated with Leicester Square
and a lot of garlic-eating revolutionaries.

"But who is this man Lind?" he asked, impatiently, of Lord Evelyn. He
had driven up to his friend's house in Clarges Street, had had luncheon
with him, and they were now smoking a cigarette in the library.

"You mean his nationality?" said his friend, laughing. "That has puzzled
me, too. He seems, at all events, to have had his finger in a good many
pies. He escaped into Turkey with Bem, I know: and he has been
imprisoned in Russia; and once or twice I have heard him refer to the
amnesty that was proclaimed when Louis Napoleon was presented with an
heir. But whether he is Pole, or Jew, or Slav, there is no doubt about
his daughter being a thorough Hungarian."

"Not the least," said Brand, with decision. "I have seen lots of women
of that type in Pesth, and in Vienna, too: if you are walking in the
Prater you can always tell the Hungarian women as they drive past. But
you rarely see one as beautiful as she is."

After awhile Lord Evelyn said,

"This is Natalie's birthday. By-and-by I am going along to Bond Street
to buy some little thing for her."