When you find out how much damage you have suffered, and what is to be done with the bear, all that can be settled.

You can write to me, but I will have nothing to do with it now." With my valise over my shoulder I returned to the hall to take leave of my hostess.

Now she seemed somewhat contrite.

Fate and she had conquered, I was going away, and she was sorry for me.
"I think it is wonderfully good of you to do all this," she said.

"I wish I could do something for you." I would have been glad to suggest that she might ask me to come again, and it would also have pleased me to say that I did not believe that her husband, if he could express his opinion, would commend her apparent inhospitality to his successor.