Good for you, Sir Karl! I have had the worst of this encounter.

I will ask no more questions nor give you further cause to wander from the truth.

Your memory, Sir Karl, is poor.

'To be a good liar, one must have a good memory,' as King Louis of France has said." "Ask all the questions you wish, Fraeulein," I responded penitently, "I will answer with the truth." "There is no need to ask questions," she said, giving me a side glance full of sauciness.

"I already know all that I wish to know." I could not resist saying:-- "Perhaps, Fraeulein, I know quite as much about you as you know about us." "There is little to know about me that is really worth while, but what little there is I sincerely hope you do not know," she replied half angrily.