The Baroness never said a word.
She stayed in her son's chamber till the physician who had been sent for had gone away again.

Then returning to us, she sat down beside Leonore and me and told us that we ought to know what had happened.

Apparently she was very calm, but I had never seen her face so pale.

She informed us that when she had spoken to her sons about their future plans, she had discovered that neither of them had ever spoken about it to the other.
Now they both declared to her that their full intention had been for years to come home after the completion of their studies and to live in Wildenstein with her and Leonore.

Bruno was quite beside himself when he found that Salo had apparently no intention to yield to him in the matter, so he challenged his brother to a duel in order to decide which of them was to remain at home.