I shall be glad, therefore, to hear your story if you have a mind to tell it me.

The young man who came upon that other night was Count Philip Christopher von Koenigsmarck." Wogan started at the mention of this name.

It seemed strange that that fitful and brilliant man, whose brief, passionate, guilty life and mysterious end had made so much noise in the world, had crossed that lawn and stood before that window at just such an hour, and maybe had sat shivering in Wogan's very chair.
"I have no such story as Count Philip von Koenigsmarck no doubt had to tell," said Wogan.
"Chevalier," said Count Otto, with a nod of approval, "Koenigsmarck had the like reticence, though he was not always so discreet, I fear.

The Princess Sophia Dorothea was at that time on a visit to the Duke of Wuertemberg at the palace in Stuttgart, but Koenigsmarck told me only that he had snatched a breathing space from the wars in the Low Countries and was bound thither again.

Rumour told me afterwards of his fatal attachment.