He looked annoyed, but she said: "He came, most kindly, to enquire after Charles. Only fancy, Worth! It was he who had Charles carried off the field! I declare, I could almost have embraced him, much as I dislike him!"
"I will see him, and thank you. Will you get the flannel for the fomentations?"
"Yes, immediately," she replied.
Downstairs, the Count faced Barbara across the small room, and said, gripping a chairback: "I did not think to find you here! I may know what I am to understand, I suppose!"
She said abstractedly: "He is better. He has even desired to be shaved."
"I am delighted to hear it! You perhaps find me irrelevant?"
"Oh no! I am so glad you are safe. Only my mind is so taken up just now -"
"It is seen! By God, I think you are a devil!"
She said rather listlessly: "Yes, I know. It does no good to say I'm sorry, or I would."
He struck the chairback with his open palm. "In fact, you made a fool of me!"