Soon he heard her voice.
"That is Mr.Norgate, is it not ?" "Yes," he replied.

"I rang up to wish you good-by." "Good-by! But you are going away, then ?" "I am sent away--dismissed!" He heard her little exclamation of grief.

Its complete genuineness broke down a little the wall of his anger.
"And it is my fault!" she exclaimed.

"If only I could do anything! Will you wait--please wait?
I will go to the Palace myself." His expostulation was almost a shock to her.
"Baroness," he replied, "if I permitted your intervention, I could never hold my head up in Berlin again! In any case, I could not stay here.

The first thing I should do would be to quarrel with that insufferable young cad who insulted us last night.