But one night of it appeared to be enough, or so it had proved on this occasion, for again I missed her by a few hours.

I was annoyed.

I agreed with Mrs.Lascelles about this hotel.

Since I had made up my mind to overtake her first or last, it might as well have been a comfortable place like this, where there was good cooking and good music and all the comforts which I may or may not have needed, but which I was certainly beginning to desire.
What a contrast to the place at which I found myself the following night.

It was a place called Triberg, in the Black Forest, which I had never penetrated before, and certainly never shall again.