If she were ill-used, then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance.
The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round him and tried to hold him back.
"'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise after the last time.

You said it should not be again.

He will be silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from her.

'You will be the ruin of us.

He has seen too much.