'Please be careful.' 'There are no English in this hotel except ourselves.

I thank you for what you said to-day.' 'Please be careful,' she repeated.
'My dear Miss P----' 'Don't mention names, and don't continue the subject!' 'Life and death perhaps depend upon my renewing it soon!' She shut the window decisively, possibly wondering if De Stancy had drunk a glass or two of Steinberg more than was good for him, and saw no more of moonlit Ehrenbreitstein that night, and heard no more of De Stancy.

But it was some time before he closed his window, and previous to doing so saw a dark form at an adjoining one on the other side.
It was Mr.Power, also taking the air.

'Well, what luck to-day ?' said Power.
'A decided advance,' said De Stancy.
None of the speakers knew that a little person in the room above heard all this out-of-window talk.

Charlotte, though not looking out, had left her casement open; and what reached her ears set her wondering as to the result.
It is not necessary to detail in full De Stancy's imperceptible advances with Paula during that northward journey--so slowly performed that it seemed as if she must perceive there was a special reason for delaying her return to England.