"Come," said the old baron, "we will send old Jake. You need not leave Bruno. Jake is an intelligent person. You can rely upon him."
Oswald bowed formally to the company and left with the baron.
"It is nice when a young man has such decided, self-assured manners," said the Reverend Mr. Jager, ironically.
"The Apollo of Belvedere," said Primula, ironically, or under the inspiration of poetic ecstasy.
"I fancy His Highness will shortly come down from his pedestal," said Felix.
"Strict masters do not rule long," said the baroness, with a look of intelligence at the professor, which the latter answered with a cunning wink of his right eye over his spectacles.
"Bruno has all the time something the matter with him," said Malte, powdering his strawberries with sugar.
Helen said nothing. She sat quiet, fixing her eyes upon the ground. Then she rose and went, without saying a word out of the bower and towards the castle.
"You are coming back, Helen?" Anna Maria called after her.
"I hardly think I shall," replied Helen, turning round; "I feel rather cool out here."