I wish to be ready." Temistocle departed on the errand.

When he returned Hedwig ordered him to give a message to her father.
"When the count comes home, ask him to see me," she said.

Temistocle bowed once more, and was gone.
Yes, she would see her father, and tell him plainly what she had suffered from Benoni.

She felt that no father, however cruel, would allow his daughter to be so treated, and she would detail the conversation to him.
She had not been able to read Nino's letter, for she feared the servant, knowing the writing to be Italian and legible to him.

Now she hastened to drink in its message of love.