"Just after you left, this afternoon, I found that I could not stay here.

My people are going abroad, to Dresden, at once, and I must go with them.

That's what almost made me cry.

I leave to-morrow morning." He felt something strike at his heart.

In the sudden sense of dearth he had no astonishment that she should betray such agitation over her departure from a place she had known so little, and friends who certainly were not part of her life.