Burger’s Daughter

“There was no indication of what impression she wanted to make, this girl; but that was, in fact, the impression he had formed the few times, since she was an adolescent, he had encountered her and even from photographs in the papers: she was either so vulnerably open that her presence in the world made an impossible claim, or so inviolable that her openness was an arrogant assumption - which amounted to the same thing. She didn’t understand the shame of the need to please, as royalty never carries money.”