"No no, you must not. I will do all you wish. I will. I will. I swear it on my soul."
"Tell me then the details of the elopement to-morrow. I know enough to test the truth of what you say; and if you lie, I shall do all I have said—and more."
"I will not lie, Christabel. I am going to trust you. It is arranged for to-morrow night. I leave the house here at nine o'clock in a carriage. At the end of the Radialstrasse Count Karl will join me. We drive first to a villa in Buda, behind the Blocksberg—a villa called 'Unter den Linden.' We are to be married there; and on the following day we cross the frontier into Germany and go to Breslau."
She said it as if she had been repeating a lesson, and finished with a deep-drawn sigh.
"Is he coming to-day?"
"No."
"To-morrow?"
"No."
"Ah. That is to convince me that all is broken off?"
"Yes." She was as readily obedient as a child.