"One thing only I understand—that you have violated the hospitality of Schloss Szolnok."
"I beg of you——"
"It is true. Was your kindness, your courtesy, your consideration, but the means to this end? I can never believe in you again."
"Do you mean that?"
"I do——"
"It is a pity."
"It is the truth. Fear and affection cannot survive together."
"Fear?"
"I can never trust you again. Let me go—I beg that you will excuse me."
He bowed. "If that is your wish——" and turned and walked to the window opposite, while Marishka found her way up the stairs and so to her room where she lay upon her bed fully dressed, in a high state of nervous excitement.