What is it?" "Andrew, I bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will never take it off.

Do you promise?" "If it does not weigh a hundredweight and won't break my neck... To please you$JMR" said Prince Andrew.

But immediately, noticing the pained expression his joke had brought to his sister's face, he repented and added: "I am glad; really, dear, I am very glad.

" "Against your will He will save and have mercy on you and bring you to Himself, for in Him alone is truth and peace," said she in a voice trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the Saviour in a gold setting, on a finely wrought silver chain.