This would not bring her any sooner to him than if she waited here until to-morrow; but how could she sit still till to-morrow?
She must be moving; she seemed to have been sitting still for an eternity.

"I must not do anything rash," she told herself, carefully.

"I must arrive at Bad-Platten able to sit down beside him the moment I have taken off my jacket--oh, without waiting to take off my jacket." She went into the hotel and ate some food, just to show herself how careful she had become.

About three o'clock she set off.

She had a fierce desire to get away from that heartless white stream and the crack of whips and the doleful pine woods, and at first she walked very quickly; but she never got away from them, for they marched with her.