He did not return to the room in which he had left Brühl; even the icy cold was preferable to that, and when after a long delay the carriage came to the door, he sprang in, and answered the servant's enquiry where to drive to, with: 'Anywhere you please.'
Against the lighted panes of the window there appeared the shadow of a man, as of one peering into the darkness. The carriage rolled away into the night and the shadow of the man at the window disappeared.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 1]: Joannis Maldonati Summula. Colomæ, 1605, p. 5.
[Footnote 2]: Two court fools.