The Lady.

I only meant--at the very last--when he was no longer--conscious.

v. Wolters.

No, Countess. But--pardon me, I don't want to be indelicate--but did he ever call you by some little--little term of endearment--some-- (Stops, embarrassed.)

The Lady.

Why do you ask?

v. Wolters.

At the very end, he kept murmuring something that sounded like "Girlie"--or----

The Lady (indignantly).

My dear Herr von Wolters, our intimacy was of a different sort.