"Mein Verlobt! My betrothed!" screamed Fräulein Hindenburg.
"That's Schuler."
"Don't you recognize Schuler?"
"No wonder poor Fräulein screamed!"
Kind hands were helping Fräulein and her mother from the hall. Doctor Hancock went out with them to give a restorative to the young woman and to take them home in his car.
"Didn't he die at that very moment, Herr Doctor?" whispered Fräulein, and the doctor was obliged to confess that it seemed so.
"But we can't be sure," he insisted.
Fräulein's agitation put an end to the entertainment for that evening. Indeed, the film was almost exhausted when the bitter sight came to her. The people filed out seriously.
"If that poor girl has been in doubt about her betrothed, now she knows," one said to another.
"Do you think he really died?" James asked his father as they were driving home.