"You can't go without food."
"I'm not hungry," she repeated.
Renwick shrugged and walked to the other window, where he presently observed Herr Windt coming around the corner of the building. That remarkable person had thought of everything, for he carried in his hands a coffeepot and cups, while another man followed with plates and a saucepan.
He turned the key in the lock and entered, putting the coffee upon the table and rubbing his hands with a more than usual gusto.
"I am delighted to be able to inform you that the occasion for your detention has passed. Within certain bounds you are now at liberty. The train of the Archduke has just passed down the valley."
"Oh!" gasped Marishka.
"I would advise you, however, to keep within call. If Herr Renwick will give me his word of honor not to try to escape——"
"I don't quite know where I should go——"
"Very good. The wires, of course, Herr Renwick, are in the hands of Austrian officials."
Renwick nodded.