It is very late." "We were very willing to wait," he answered kindly, approaching her.
Then all she had resolved to do returned to her memory and, for the first time since her marriage, she raised her husband's hand to her lips.

He smilingly withdrew it, kissed her on the forehead, and said: "It is delightful to have you here." "Isn't it ?" she asked, gently shaking her finger at him.
"But we are all here now, and dinner is waiting." "Come then," she answered gaily.

"Do you know whom I met on the stairs ?" "English soldiers." "Of course, but among them Junker von Dornburg." "He called on me.

A handsome fellow, whose gayety is very attractive, a German from the evangelical countries." "Leonhard's best friend.

Don't you know?
Surely I've told you about him.
Our guest at Jacoba's wedding." "Oh! yes.