"It shall be as you please," he said quietly. "My desire was to reassure you. You shall be as safe in my company as you are at Nemi, but I pray you to be discreet. One may not speak freely in Germany in times like these. I warn you now that for myself I fear nothing, so that you are powerless against me, but should you antagonize or deride German authority, I may not be able to save you."
"What do you want me to do?"
"Keep silent, that is all. You travel as my sister. At the town ahead of us you will provide yourself with a valise, a hat, coat, and such toilet articles as you may require. Tonight we should reach Munich where you will be again among members of the society. I shall try my case before them, place this money in their care."
"And after that--what?"
"If it pleases you, we shall go on into Russia."
She thought a moment. "And if I promise to obey you thus far, what do you offer me in return?"
"The liberation of Prince Samarov when we reach Petrograd," he replied promptly.
"Very well," she assented at last. "I agree."
"Good," and then with a smile; "one word more, Princess Tatyana, a word of warning and of prophecy. The cause of the Provisional Government is hopeless, its leaders dreamers--idealists. Russia has dreamed too long. The party to come into power will be radical, applying desperate remedies to desperate diseases, but it will be practical and it will be triumphant. Do not sink with a lost cause--for in the end the result is the same--Russia free--socialism--Internationalism victorious----"
"International Prussianism----!"