"There is no one in the adjoining room?"
"There Sister Athalie and Mamma Sophie sleep."
"Frau Sophie too?"
"Yes, to be sure. You want to know everything. To-morrow it will all be differently arranged."
("To-morrow?")
"And do you lock the door when you go to bed?"
"Never. Why should I? All my servants love me, and are trustworthy; the front door is barred, and I am safe here."
"Is there nowhere a secret entrance to this room?"
"Ha! ha! You seem to take my house for a mysterious Venetian palace!"
("Is it your house? Did you build it?")