Yelkin was about to bring Angelique to the front to introduce her properly to the Czar and Czarina, but when Lord Romanov and Princess Ingrid arrived, he pulled her slightly to the side. They would wait until the royal family was seated, as protocol demanded.<br/><br/>Yelkin studied Princess Ingrid. Very fair, very pretty, he decided. There was new work being done on the field of heredity by the Englishman Charles Darwin and the Austrian botanist George Mendel. Yelkin, hungry for knowledge even in the twilight of his career, had read their articles and works. He examined the couple from a physical reproduction point of view, and he decided that though they looked very different - dark and light - they both had good features. The baby would definitely have blue eyes. Pray God there was a baby, an heir.<br/><br/>He glanced down at Angelique at his side, and found himself hiding the treasonous thought that the English girl was far more striking than the porcelain princess. But he was an old man, just reminiscing and reliving the last bits of youth.<br/><br/>"We will wait a moment, Miss DeWarrenne," he whispered to her. "Then I will bring you to meet our royal family."