Meanwhile, I shall make my toilet for dinner, where we will all meet again." "What a perfectly charming woman!" exclaimed the justice, when their hostess had vanished from the room.
"I wonder what would happen," observed the doctor, with a malicious grin, "if the vice-palatine's wife should hear of that kiss?
Would n't there be a row, though!" The heroic descendant of the Scythians at these words became seriously alarmed.
"The Herr Doctor, I trust, will be honorable enough not to gossip about it," he said meekly.
"Oh, you may rest without fear, so far as _I_ am concerned; but I would n't say as much for the surveyor, here.

If ever he should succeed in getting beyond 'I say,' I won't answer for the safety of your secret, Herr Vice-palatine! When your wife hears, moreover, that it is 'Bernat' and 'Katinka' up here, it will require something besides an anecdote to parry what will follow!".