CHAPTER V.
THE DISAGREEABLE MAN.
ROBERT ALLITSEN told Bernardine that she was not likely to be on friendly terms with the English people in the Kurhaus.
"They will not care about you, and you will not care about the foreigners.

So you will thus be thrown on your own resources, just as I was when I came." "I cannot say that I have any resources," Bernardine answered.

"I don't feel well enough to try to do any writing, or else it would be delightful to have the uninterrupted leisure." So she had probably told him a little about her life and occupation; although it was not likely that she would have given him any serious confidences.

Still, people are often surprisingly frank about themselves, even those who pride themselves upon being the most reticent mortals in the world.
"But now, having the leisure," she continued, "I have not the brains!" "I never knew any writer who had," said the Disagreeable Man grimly.
"Perhaps your experience has been limited," she suggested.
"Why don't you read ?" he said.

"There is a good library here.