You would have married an heiress by this time," ironically, "and all your troubles would be over." "Or begun," in the same spirit.

"I'm no fortune hunter, in the sense you mean.

Pah! I have no debts; no crumbling _schloss_ to rebuild.
All I ask is to be let alone," with a flash of that moodiness of which he had spoken.

"How long will you be here ?" "Can't say.

Three or four days, perhaps.