Now for the other.

But are you quite sure, Vjera, that it is as bad as you think?
I know that Fischelowitz does not in the least expect the money." "No--I daresay not.

But I know this, if I had not met him just now and promised to bring him the fifty marks, he would have been raving mad before morning." Schmidt saw by her look that she was convinced of the fact.
"Very well," he said.

"I am not going to turn back now.

The poor Count has done me many a good turn in his time, and I will do my best, though I do not exactly see what more I can do, at such short notice." "Have you got anything worth pawning, Herr Schmidt ?" asked Vjera, ruthless, as devoted people can be when the object of their devotion is in danger.
"Well--I have not much that I can spare.