"Hum! When were you wounded?"
"On the way back."
"Why did you not remain where you were?"
"Because I had undertaken to bring the Field-Marshal an answer."
"You might have spared yourself this second act of daring."
"I might have spared myself the first also."
"You wanted to achieve fame?"
"I wanted among other things to escape the privilege of this cross-examination."
The Landrath straightened himself and threw back his mane. "Permit me to draw your attention to the fact that you stand before the representative of your king, Herr Baron von Schranden."
"Barefaced impudence!" muttered the voice at the window.