"Am I to say?"
"Yes," she said faintly.
"Shall I register as your brother?"
She blushed and looked at him in a lovely and distressed way.
"What are we to do?" she faltered.
They entered the main hall of the great hotel[250] at that moment, and she turned to look around her.
"Oh!" she exclaimed, clutching his arm. "Do you see that man? Do you see him?"
"Which man—dearest?——"
"That one over there! That is the clergyman I saw in the crystal. Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Is it going to come true right away?"
"I think it is," he said. "Are you afraid?"