"He would wait there till the time came to attack Rupert, or, if the thing is over, he will have returned there." "Then let us drive there at once," she urged.
Bernenstein, however, persuaded her to go to the palace first and let it be known there that she was going to pay a visit to my wife.

She arrived at the palace at eight o'clock, took a cup of chocolate, and then ordered her carriage.

Bernenstein alone accompanied her when she set out for my house about nine.

He was, by now, hardly less agitated than the queen herself.
In her entire preoccupation with Mr.Rassendyll, she gave little thought to what might have happened at the hunting lodge; but Bernenstein drew gloomy auguries from the failure of Sapt and myself to return at the proper time.

Either evil had befallen us, or the letter had reached the king before we arrived at the lodge; the probabilities seemed to him to be confined to these alternatives.