"Is Zdena also going to Bayreuth?" he asks.
"No," the major replies; "the finances are not equal to that."
"'Tis a pity," Harry remarks: "a little change of air might do her good."
"So it seems to me," the major assents, "and I was about to propose a plan. By the way, when do you take your departure?"
"Are you going away?" asks Frau Rosamunda, rising from the piano, aglow with enthusiasm and artistic zeal, to join the trio. Wenkendorf also rises and takes a seat near the rest.
"He is going away," the major replies.
"Yes," assents Harry.
"But what does your betrothed say?"
"I have already put that question to him," said the major.
"One of my comrades has suddenly been taken ill," Harry stammers, frowning; "and so--of course it is very unpleasant just now----"