Prince Ferdinand's Entanglement
Written by
Huan Mee
Copyright 1899
Published in Cassell's Magazine, September 1899. Collected in the next year.
Prince Ferdinand, son of the ruler of the small country of Elvirna, is having difficulties with a woman. He is scheduled to marry "for the good of the tiny kingdom" but has given his heart to another, "a third-rate actress". Roché asks Lerestelle to entice the man back to reason and "destroy this wretched entanglement"