Our neighbor, the lovely baroness, is trying to restore the poor lad to his original condition.

Next summer you will not need to be afraid to venture into the lake again." The little maid gazed thoughtfully into Ludwig's eyes for several moments; evidently she was pondering over something.
There had risen in her mind a suspicion that Ludwig himself had written the pamphlet, and had had the monster's portrait engraved, in order to quiet her fears and restore her confidence in the water.
"Will you take me sometime to visit the baroness ?" she asked suddenly.
"And why ?" inquired Ludwig, in turn, rising from his seat.
"That I, too, may see the wonderful improvement in the monster." "No," he returned shortly, and taking up the pamphlet, he quitted the room.

"No!" "But why 'No' ?".