Ludwig shrugged his shoulders.
"At all events," he said, "our King's conduct is noble. He had given up everything, plate, wealth, all he has, to help with this debt to Napoleon. The future is God's, not ours."
As for the Queen, all Prussia sang praise of her nobility in going to Tilsit.
Marianne had been once to Memel on a visit to her uncle Joachim, who was happy now with Rudolph at home again, and had been to Court and had seen Queen Louisa before she herself moved to Königsberg.
She had been reading a wonderful book called "Leonard and Gertrude."
"I wish," she told Marianne, "that I could get into a carriage and start off to Switzerland and find the author."
His name was Pestalozzi, and he was full of new ideas of how to educate children.
But what pleased Marianne was the news that the Queen was soon to come to Königsberg.
"But our dear Queen is not well," said the old Countess to Marianne. "Since her visit to that monster she lies awake at night and weeps and often suffers a pain in her heart, though in public she smiles and is always an angel."
"Down with Napoleon!" called out the parrot. "Upstart! Villain! Monster! Down with the Emperor!"