At last he had made up his mind, and spoke: 'We might as well make a dash at it at once,' said he.
'Where is Marie ?' No one answered him.

'Where is Marie Bromar ?' he asked again, angrily.

He knew that it behoved him now to take upon himself at once the real authority of a master of a house.
'She is up-stairs,' said Peter, who was straightening a table-cloth.
'Tell her to come down to me,' said her uncle.

Peter departed immediately, and for a while there was silence in the little room.
Adrian Urmand felt his heart to palpitate disagreeably.

Indeed, the manner in which it would appear that the innkeeper proposed to manage the business was distressing enough to him.