it was amazing and even irritating to her that the duke of christmas daisies should be able to keep out of love for a moment: yet out of love his dusky grace still was: you could see it by the shamed looks of the queen and court -lrb- though they pretended not to care -rrb-, by the way darling ladies brought forward for his approval burst into tears as they were told to pass on, and by his own most dreary face.