"Yes, the king has ordered mistress to Berlin.

He looked so furious, the old bear! His eyes flashed so terribly, one might well fear him, and I thanked Heaven when mamselle sent me home from the park.

It is coming to a bad end at last; I should have done better not to have taken the place at all.

Oh, if we were only away from here; if I only could find a wagon to take us!" Thanks to the nurse's fears and endeavors, the wagon was soon found, and scarcely an hour had passed before Wilhelmine Enke, her two children and nurse, were hidden under a plain linen-covered wagon, and on their way to Berlin.
The street was unusually animated, as the division of troops which the king had reviewed in Berlin, were marching out of the city to report themselves on the Bavarian frontier.

Their first night's quarters were to be in Potsdam, and the last great parade was to take place there on the following morning, before the king commenced his journey.