When he came back, he was completely disheartened.

Bismarck, who had travelled part of the way to meet him, got into the train at a small roadside station.

He found that the King, who was sitting alone in an ordinary first-class carriage, was prepared to surrender.

"What will come of it ?" he said.
"Already I see the place before my castle on which your head will fall, and then mine will fall too." "Well, as far as I am concerned," answered Bismarck, "I cannot think of a finer death than one on the field of battle or the scaffold.

I would fall like Lord Strafford; and your Majesty, not as Louis XVI., but as Charles I.That is a quite respectable historical figure." For the moment the centre of interest lay in the House.