You shall have him again later on." After more kisses and caresses Willy ran off, and Paul led his guest to the room prepared for him, where at last he left him to himself.
Wilhelm had visited Paul on his estate during the preceeding summer, but since then had only seen him in Berlin.

The house on the Uhlenhorst was new to him, and he marveled at the solid sumptuousness that met the eye at every turn.

The visitor's room was not less splendidly furnished than the smoking and breakfast rooms he had already seen, and when he looked about him at the great carved bedstead with its ample draperies, the silk damask-covered chairs, the thick rugs, the marble washstand, and the toilet table with its array of bottles and dishes of china, cut glass, and silver, he could not help feeling almost abashed.

His friend Paul had become a very great gentleman apparently! And so in point of fact he had.

The Friesenmoor had proved itself a very gold mine, and in the district round about they calculated that it yielded a clear return of a hundred or a hundred and twenty thousand marks a year.