Two Shall Be Born the Whole Wide World Apart

We need recite but one other interview which Princess Zara undertook
that day. Several follow upon it, and there were many such during her
stay of more than a week in New York City.

Many came, were received and went away again; and the princess herself
was frequently abroad in the streets, or at places of amusement, or was
entertained by those who worship at the shrine of nobility.

But there was one who called upon her the evening of the day of
Saberevski's interview, to which it is necessary that we should refer.
He came at ten o'clock, and was expected, for he was conducted to her
presence immediately and was received without question, although it
would have been immediately plain to an observer that these two had
never met before.

The things which they discussed were largely technical, and had to do
with the conduct and activities of various nihilistic agents who were
scattered about over the world, outside of Russia. He was a man whose
name does not appear again in this story and which therefore need not
be mentioned now, but he was nevertheless one well known at the courts
of Europe, and on the streets of New York and Washington.

At the end of their discussion and interchange of confidences, when he
rose to leave her and she gave him her hand, he said, recurring to the
subject of their conversation: "Princess, if we had others like you, as sincere in their efforts for
the betterment of our people, nihilism would soon become the dominant
factor of Russian politics, and official oppression would cease to
exist. If we had others like you, as good and as beautiful as you are,
the czar would abdicate, or would consent to give us a parliament. As
it is, the struggle has only just begun, and I greatly fear that
neither I nor you, young though you are, will live to see its end."