Shall we ever be so happy again?
If we could only stay here always, the same people in the midst of the same nature!" She said nothing, but let him take her answer from her fresh lips.
They left by the Offenberg railway station in the afternoon.

Loulou's eyes were wet.

Frau Ellrich smiled in a motherly way at Wilhelm, and Herr Ellrich took his hand in a friendly manner and said: "We shall see you in Berlin at the end of September." As the train disappeared down the Gutach valley, it seemed to Wilhelm as if all the light of heaven had gone out, and the world had become empty.

He stayed a few days longer at the Schloss hotel, and cherished the remembrance of his time there with Loulou, dreaming for hours in the dearly-loved spots.

In this tender frame of mind he received another letter from Paul Haber, who wrote thus: "DEAREST WILHELM: Your letter of the 13th astonished me so much that it took me several days to recover.