"You know what news has come to me from Berlin ?" "Your Excellency has told me a little," the doctor reminded him.
"The Day arrives," Von Ragastein pronounced, his voice shaking with deep emotion.

He paused a moment in thought and continued, "the time, even the month, is fixed.

I am recalled from here to take the place for which I was destined.

You know what that place is?
You know why I was sent to an English public school and college ?" "I can guess." "I am to take up my residence in England.

I am to have a special mission.