"Donnerwetter! Your beautiful countrywoman is made the subject of curiosity just because that stupid baron is persistent in his serious attentions.

That is quite enough, my good friend, to make Klatschen here among those animals who do not understand the freedom of an American girl, or that an heiress may have something else to do with her money than to expend it on the Baron's mortgages.
But"-- he stopped, and his simple, honest face assumed an air of profound and sagacious cunning--"I am glad to talk about it with you, who of course are perfectly familiar with the affair.

I shall now be able to know what to say.

My word, my friend, has some weight here, and I shall use it.

And now you shall tell me WHO is our lovely friend, and WHO were her parents and her kindred in her own home.