I expect you to devote yourself to that lady and tell me the result of the conversation after it is over.

Have you been talking consolation to Gretlich?
I came up here half an hour ago, and it seemed to me I heard the sound of crying in this room." "Oh, yes," said Jennie, "she has been telling me all her trouble.

It seems she had a lover in the army, and he has been killed in some accident in the Treasury." "What kind of an accident ?" "Gretlich said there had been an explosion there." "Dear me! I never heard of it.

It is a curious thing that one must come from London to tell us our own news.

An explosion in the Treasury! and so serious that a soldier was killed! That arouses my curiosity, so I shall just sit down and write another invitation to the wife of the Master of the Treasury." "I wish you would, because I should like to know something further about this myself.