"But good heavens! What are we to do? I can't think of sending for the doctor now! I don't want him to hear of what has happened here to-night."
"I understand bloodletting," observed Vavel.
"You, Herr Count?"
"Yes; I have studied medicine and surgery."
"But you have no lance."
"I brought my chirurgic instruments with me."
"Then you thought you might find here some one who had fainted?" exclaimed the baroness, wonderingly.
"Yes. I shall require the assistance of a maid to hold the woman's arm while I perform the operation."
"I don't want any of the servants wakened. Can't I—help you?" she suggested hesitatingly.