“There might be danger for me were I to do so.”
Crescenz looked immensely delighted and flattered, and her fingers moved faster than ever.
“Is it not customary here to consider an engagement almost as binding as a marriage?”
“I don’t know,” she replied, innocently; “I never was engaged until now. But,” she added, hastily, “but we are not yet affianced; that will not be until the day after our arrival in Munich.”
“Then you are still at liberty to amuse yourself with others?”
“Oh, yes.”
“And I may talk to you without Major Stultz having any right to be jealous?”
“Jealous!” she repeated, blushing.
“I meant to say angry. Men at his time of life are difficult to manage; but it seems you get on famously with him, and have already forgotten all you said in the cloisters.”
“What did I say?” she asked, looking up.