The prince's countenance was cold and disdainful. It would have been scarcely credited, that his mild features, melancholy, and so perfectly juvenile in expression, could have lent themselves to such a demonstration of icy severity.
The princess looked at her husband with equal surprise and uneasiness. She had never seen him look thus. Arnold was pale and attired in black.
Anxious to conceal her embarrassment, Paula said to him,—
"Are you going out this evening, Arnold?"
"No, madame; I beg you to bestow on me a few moments."
"Most certainly."
"I have decided that we leave this hotel."
"As you please, sir; only after all the expense you have lately bestowed upon it——"
"That is my affair."
"I have not the slightest objection to move. I will even tell you frankly, that I should be delighted to quit this lone quarter which was your sole selection."