Schrotter wrote in answer that he might keep them, and sent him a small sum of money as a bequest from Wilhelm.
Pilar's suicide made somewhat of an impression on him.

So there were women, after all, who could die of love, and that not in the first moments of a mad and passionate grief, but after months, when the nerves have had time to cool down.

"She was hysterical," Schrotter said to himself, endeavoring thereby to dispel various uncomfortable suggestions.

He did not wholly succeed.
As Paul begged him so earnestly to come to his festival, he accepted the invitation, and found himself, on the first of May, among the guests whom Malvine received on the steps of Friesenmoor House.
In the great oak-paneled dining room, with its windows looking to the west, a banquet was laid for twenty-four guests.

Following the country custom, they sat down to table at twelve o'clock.