Then she decked it and furnished it, and asked for his orders.
"Bring me what you will," he said.
The two servants brought supplies from the pantry, together with white wine and red--a bottle of each.

The astrologer, who very likely had never seen such delicacies before, poured out a beaker of red wine, drank it off, poured another, then began to eat with a grand appetite.
I was not expecting Satan, for it was more than a week since I had seen or heard of him, but now he came in--I knew it by the feel, though people were in the way and I could not see him.

I heard him apologizing for intruding; and he was going away, but Marget urged him to stay, and he thanked her and stayed.

She brought him along, introducing him to the girls, and to Meidling, and to some of the elders; and there was quite a rustle of whispers: "It's the young stranger we hear so much about and can't get sight of, he is away so much." "Dear, dear, but he is beautiful--what is his name ?" "Philip Traum." "Ah, it fits him!" (You see, "Traum" is German for "Dream.") "What does he do ?" "Studying for the ministry, they say." "His face is his fortune--he'll be a cardinal some day." "Where is his home ?" "Away down somewhere in the tropics, they say--has a rich uncle down there." And so on.

He made his way at once; everybody was anxious to know him and talk with him.