“Where did you sleep—in the bear-room?”
“I did, and capitally too.”
“Capitally, did you? The ghost they talk about—”
“It is not about a ghost that you want to question me. You don’t believe in them any more than I do.”
“True; but there was a strange apparition here at the ball, whom nobody knew. This you might have met at Stollborg.”
“No, I have seen no apparition.”
“But when I say an apparition—Did you not see a lawyer there, one M. Goefle, a very able man?”
“Yes; I had the honor of conversing with him this morning. He occupies the room there with two beds in it.”
“With his nephew?”
“I saw nothing of any nephew.”