Pastor Rad suddenly began to suspect that he was too confidential.
"She is evidently a lady of rank!" said the Jesuit. "She was alone in the orchard?"
"No! She was with a cavalier."
"Ah! You knew him also?"
"Yes! I do not know his name! I saw him first at Magdeburg. He was a fierce fighter. He is a foreigner. I saw him yesterday as he rode away from the palace, and he lodges in the Fremdengasse. He is an officer."
"You seemed to have followed him! Did you suspect him of stealing your lamb?"
"Yes!" said Pastor Rad with an indignation which was not fictitious.
"And instead you found him with this strange Countess! Can you describe her to me?"
"She is very tall. She has dark hair, dark eyes, red lips, a pale complexion, and bears herself proudly!"