The Archduke showed me the telegram at the time.

He laid it aside without the slightest sign of fear, saying that such events, when announced beforehand, seldom were carried out.

The Duchess suffered all the more in her fears for his life, and I think that in imagination the poor lady often went through the catastrophe of which she and her husband were the victims.

Another praiseworthy feature in the Archduke was that, out of consideration for his wife's anxiety, he tolerated the constant presence of a detective, which not only bored him terribly but in his opinion was absurd.

He was afraid that if the fact became known it would be imputed to timidity on his part, and he conceded the point solely with the view of calming his wife's fears.
But he anxiously concealed all his good qualities and took an obstinate pleasure in being hard and disagreeable.