Fraulein Loulou Ellrich, and you write so lightly! Don't you know--that Fraulein Ellrich is one of the first 'parties' in Berlin?
That the little god of love will make you a present of two million thalers?
You have shot your bird, and I am most happy that for once fortune should bring it to the hand of a fellow like yourself.

In the hope that as a millionaire you will still be the same to me, I am your heartily congratulatory "PAUL." Wilhelm was painfully surprised.

What a mercy that the letter had not come sooner.

It might have influenced his manner so much as to spoil his relations with Loulou.

Now that the Ellrichs were gone, it could for the moment do no harm..