He would test it, I felt confident. He had everything to gain by doing so, and nothing to lose. At least so he would reason. Success would mean all in all; failure no more than the need to invent an excuse.
I determined to go on, therefore; and fell asleep at last in complete assurance that on the morrow matters would go as I had planned before the Duke had seen me.
In the morning General von Erlanger greeted me with even more than his usual kindliness.
"You have not slept well, Christabel," he said. I suppose my face showed this.
"I had to think."
"What are you going to do? You know all that I meant in what I said at parting last night?"
"I am going to wait for the meeting at noon."
"And then?"
"If no one comes I shall go away."
"There is of course something behind that. But Count Gustav will come. His father will see to that."