The relatives and the betrothed of the dead soldier had been warned to keep silence and seek no further information.

It was not till several days after her lover's death that Gretlich, anxious because he did not keep his appointment with her, and not hearing from him, fearing that he was ill, began to make inquiries; then she received together the information and the caution.
In the presence of death all consolers are futile, and Jennie realized this as she endeavoured as well as she could to comfort the girl.

Her heart was so much enlisted in this that perhaps her intellect was the less active; but here she stood on the very threshold of the secret she had come to Vienna to discover, and yet had not the slightest suspicion that the girl's tragedy and her own mission were interwoven.

Jennie had wondered at the stupidity of Cadbury Taylor, who failed to see what seemed so plainly before him, yet here was Jennie herself come a thousand miles, more or less, to obtain certain information, and here a sobbing girl was narrating the very item of news that she had come so far to learn--all of which would seem to show that none of us are so bright and clever as we imagine ourselves to be.
In the afternoon the Princess entered Jennie's sitting-room carrying in her hand a bunch of letters.
"There!" she cried, "while you have been resting I have been working, and we are not going to allow any time to be lost.

I have written with my own hand invitations to about two dozen people to our tea on Thursday; among others, the wife of the Premier, Countess Stron.