"What is it all, Christabel?" asked Karl.
"Trouble perhaps for us all, and probably very serious trouble. If Count Gustav will not explain, I will."
I stopped for him to speak.
"You know why I came?" he said.
"Your brother and Colonel Katona do not."
"Hadn't we better speak together alone first?"
"Yes, if you wish."
We went out together into another room.
"You have played me an ugly trick," he began.
"It is rather that you sought to play me one and failed. You came here to steal Gareth from my care."