As long as the fascinations of this siren are fresh in your memory, no respectable German girl will have any attraction for you, and the love she is able to offer you will seem flat and insipid." "You only speak of me," Wilhelm ventured to remark, "but that is not the worst side of the story; what weighs most heavily on my mind is, that I have broken my faith with her." "Do not let that worry you," Schrotter replied.

"You were in such a position as to be forced to act in self-defense.

It would have been inexcusable in you to have stayed any longer where you were.

For a liaison of that kind is only conceivable when the man loves the woman very deeply.

You, my friend, did not love the lady at all.