"You do not wish me to go alone?"
"Not to go alone. But unless you know of some better place you might well go to Charmes to your real cousin; and you could stay there until these troubles have blown over."
"And you?"
"I shall of course go with you to Charmes, and then return with all speed to Munich to watch matters there."
"Why should you go back to face the risks there alone?"
"I can do more good for you as well as for myself if I know you are in a place of safety."
"We can talk of that on the way; but what should I do now if anything happened to you?" she cried in distress.
I loved her for the words, but could not thank her as I would, for at that moment one of the men caught sight of us and came hastily toward me.
"Major Gessler is very desirous of seeing your Highness at once," he said.
"I will come to the house," I said, and with that we turned, the man hastening on to give my message.