“It is tragic that you did not know this yesterday, Prince,” I added at length. “To have roused my wife’s hope only to kill it to-day is to inflict a very cruel blow.”
“What will you do now, monsieur?”
“I find it impossible to answer off hand. Of course this proposed journey will now be useless.”
“Quite,” he declared bluntly. “That is why I brought nothing with me.”
I threw up my hands as if the situation baffled me.
“Poor Helga!” I sighed.
“Will you go to your own country, monsieur?” he asked.
“If I can induce my wife to go, yes. But——” I paused.
“You will do most wisely to go.”
“No doubt. But——” and I pulled up again as if in the most desperate perplexity.