"I hope there is no trouble?" said Minna, looking alarmed.
"I anticipate none; no more, that is, than that we must break off our conference."
"You have given me your promise," she said.
"I ought to have made a condition—that you do not read me quite so carefully," I answered lightly as I rose.
"Then I have read aright? To me your eyes are as books."
"Yet you must be careful how you read them," said I.
"Why?"
"You may chance on the chapter with your name at the head."
"I wish I could," and she laughed and her eyes brightened. "I would give the world to know whether it is headed Queen of Bavaria or cousin Minna. Which is it? Tell me, at least, so much."
"It may be neither," I answered ambiguously; but she seemed to understand something of my meaning, and to be pleased, for her cheeks were aglow with color as I hurried away.