CHAPTER IX

MRS. TURNER The understanding gentleman who undertook to play Providence to his highness was Sir Arthur Mainwaring, a slight, elegant fellow of an almost Spanish complexion and with all a Spaniard's traditional heat of blood. He was alert, swift, ingenious, alive in every fibre of him, expert to his finger-tips in every kind of intrigue, and without scruples of any kind to hamper him. Sir Arthur plied his nimble wits to serve his prince with a courtier's usual hope of being served himself on the rebound. And he wen…