He listened for a moment and nodded.
"An urgent visitor demands a moment of my time," he said, rising.
"I have taken already too much," Anna declared, "but I felt it was time that I heard the truth.

They fence with me so in Berlin, and, believe me, Prince Herschfeld, in Vienna the Emperor is almost wholly ignorant of what is planned." The door was opened behind them.

The Prince turned around.

A young man had ushered in Herr Selingman.

For a moment the latter looked steadily at Anna.