Luck must serve you from the very start and grant you the meeting with the prince of your dreams! Then your own task begins: how to make him look upon you with that high regard and become attached to you... I, for instance, always knew how to leave the great evening parties at the height of their brilliance and the very peak of their glitter, so as to stir up around me an air of questioning: Where is "Dawn"? Where can she have fled? Perhaps she has another engagement she prefers to this party! — And so I would kindle the fire, when in fact I had fled nowhere but to my own bed!

This is a rule I have followed at every stage of my life... and it has always succeeded! But it must be practiced in a natural way, with no trace of affectation, or it is bound to fail — I met Vittorio in Rome, and there is nothing like the sky of Italy to inspire love! And when I felt that love had taken possession of his heart, and he declared his feeling to me and asked for my hand.. on that very day — that is, at the height of our happiness — I left him and flew to Paris, and from there to Hollywood to take part in a film! Or so ran my excuse to him; the truth is that it was my old, tried method. Was it not just like my leaving the party at the peak of its brilliance

and gaiety?!