"They have gone," said the Princess. "They went last night to Paris. They are going to Munich and then to Bayreuth. Jean asked me to say 'Good-bye' to you. She said she hopes you will come here next year."
"Has Rudd gone with them?" I asked.
"He will meet them at Bayreuth later. He does not love Mozart. And there is a Mozart festival at Munich."
I asked after Miss Brandon.
"The same as before," said the Princess. "The lamp was lit for a moment, but they put it out. It is a pity. The man behaved well."
At that moment we were interrupted. I wanted to ask her a great deal more. But the motor-bus drove up to the door. She said "Good-bye" to me. She was going to Paris. She would spend the winter at Rome.
In the afternoon I saw Mrs. Summer, but only for a moment. She told me Miss Brandon had sent me a lot of messages, and I wanted to ask her what had happened and how things stood, but she had an engagement. We arranged to meet and have a long talk the next morning.
But when the next morning came, I got a message from her, saying she had been obliged to go to London at once to meet her husband.
A little later in the day, I received a letter by post from my unmarried sister, saying she would meet me in Paris and we could both go back to Italy together. So I decided to do this. I saw Rudd once before I left. He dined with me on my last night. He said that his holiday was shortly coming to an end. He would spend three days at Bayreuth and then he would go back to work.
"On the Sleeping Beauty?" I asked.