'The idea!'
'That young employé from my office--'
She blushed and said angrily:
'I have my fancies! Nobody can stop them. Pray do not mix yourself up in my affairs, as I do not mix in yours.'
'Madam!'
Here the Countess Moszynski entered: she was beaming with animation. She put out her hands to Frau Brühl and said:
'There is victory sur tout la ligne! In town they speak of nothing else; they wonder, they tremble--'
'They rejoice,' added Brühl.
'I am not certain of that,' the Countess interrupted, 'but we are pleased at the downfall of that proconsul. Once and for all we are en famille and are not required to bow to that proud lord.'
'What news? What does he intend to do?' asked Brühl.