Bending the knee he offered the flowers, saying: "Prince Karl sends you these, Mademoiselle Lannes." She started a little at the sound of his voice and he continued in a lower tone: "Julie, I've come across Germany for you.

Make no sign.

I'm here to save you.

I'm a groom in the prince's stables!" He saw the delicate color like the first flush of dawn overspread her face, and a light that had never shone for any other spring into her eyes.

All the hardships that he had endured, all the dangers that he had run were as nothing now.
"John," she exclaimed, in a voice tremulous with fear for him, not for herself, "you must leave Zillenstein at once! Your life is not safe here for a moment!" "When I go you go with me," he said.
They had spoken rapidly in whispers and not even Suzanne had noticed.
Accustomed now to the servants in the castle she had merely seen a young peasant bringing flowers from the prince to her mistress.