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THE INNER AND THE MIDDLE TEMPLE.
Wilhelmine Enke had passed the day in great anxiety and excitement, and not even the distraction of her new possession had been able to calm the beating of her heart or allay her fears.

Prince Frederick William had arrived early in the morning, to bid her farewell, as he was to march in the course of the day with his regiments from Potsdam.

With the tenderest assurances of love he took leave of Wilhelmine, and with tears kissed his two children, pressing them to his heart.

As he was about to enter his carriage he returned to the house to embrace his weeping mistress, and reassure her of his fidelity, and make her promise him again and again that she would remain true to him, and never love another.
It was not alone the farewell to her beloved prince which caused Wilhelmine such anxiety and made her so restless.