Who are those who fear the newspapers?
Certainly it is not the guiltless.

Of what was Gretchen guilty?
The inn-keeper knew.

Was she one of those many conspirators who abound in the kingdom?
She was beautiful enough for anything.

And whence came the remarkable likeness between her and Phyllis?
Here was a mystery indeed.

I had a week before me; in that time I might learn something about Gretchen, even if I could solve nothing.