"Then—I do seem to be rather hungry."
He drew a chair for her; she seated herself and ate with a youthful appetite. He drank his cocoa, ate his rolls, and tried not to look at her too often.
"This is why I am here," he said. "I saw General Baron von Reiter four days ago under somewhat extraordinary circumstances.
"He told me that since the war broke out he had not been able to communicate directly with you or to get you out of England, and he asked me to find you and bring you to his estate at Trois Fontaines in Luxembourg."
"To Quellenheim?" she asked, surprised and disturbed. "Is he there?"
"No, he is with a field army, and he does not know where orders from staff headquarters may send him."
"Still," she said, hesitating, "I should think that he might wish me to go to Silesia——"
"Silesia is threatened by the Russian army."
"Silesia!" she repeated, incredulously. "Cossacks in Silesia?" She sat, her cup of cocoa half raised to her lips, her surprised and disconcerted eyes on his. Then she set the cup aside.
"He wishes me to go to Quellenheim? With you?"