My thoughts were with Minna.

What a prospect for the innocent, affectionate girl! Assuming the statement that I had just heard to be true, there was surely a chance that Madame Fontaine (with time before her) might find the money.

I put this view of the case to Frau Meyer.
"If I didn't know Mr.Keller to be a thoroughly resolute man," she answered, "I should say she might find the money too.

She has only to succeed in marrying her daughter to Fritz, and Mr.Keller would be obliged to pay the money for the sake of the family credit.

But he is one of the few men whom she can't twist round her finger.