We shall be free by nine o'clock, Fritz.

I wish young Rupert would come to the lodge!" And the colonel's face expressed a lively pleasure at the idea.
Six o'clock struck, and the king did not appear.

A few moments later, a message came from the queen, requesting our presence on the terrace in front of the chateau.

The place commanded a view of the road by which the king would ride back, and we found the queen walking restlessly up and down, considerably disquieted by the lateness of his return.

In such a position as ours, every unusual or unforeseen incident magnifies its possible meaning, and invests itself with a sinister importance which would at ordinary times seem absurd.