"Then allow me to accompany you to the carriage."
"My father having given you my hand, I have no right to refuse your escort."
"Before we go, be so condescending as to say which one of my estates you prefer for a residence."
"Select my residence yourself, count; you know that I have never visited your estates."
"Then I choose for you my castle in Hungary, near the Turkish frontier, for there you will have the latest news from the army and its commanders."
Therese made no reply to this sarcasm. She bent her head, and said: "I am ready to submit myself to your decision in all things."
"I hope that the Countess Therese will not long have to live in subjection to her husband," continued he, "and that the journey which I am about to undertake will result happily for us both. You go to Hungary, I go to Rome. I go to implore of the pope a divorce."
"You are going to sue for a divorce?" asked Therese, "Perhaps you can spare yourself the trouble of a journey to Rome, count, for I have already anticipated your wishes. My petition to his holiness went several days ago, and—"
"His majesty, the emperor, was so obliging as to send it by an imperial courier. Is that what you were about to say?"
Therese continued as though she had not heard the interruption "My application went through Monsignore Garampi, the papal nuncio, who promised to use his influence in my behalf."