Go on." "You will put the matter before her highness." "That will be difficult." "Let her repudiate the negotiations.

Let her say that she has changed her mind.

His majesty is quite willing that the humiliation be his." "That is generous.

But suppose she has set her heart on the crown of Jugendheit?
What then ?" The baron bit the ends of his mustache.
"Suppose that ?" the chancellor pressed relentlessly.
"In that event, the affair is no longer in our hands but in God's." "As all affairs are.

Is there no way of changing the king's mind ?" "Read the letter, Count," said the ambassador.
Herbeck hunted for the postmark: Bavaria.