And then from day to day they were always in each other's company.

He had promised to stay a month, and during that time he was petted and comforted to his heart's content.

Lady Laura would have taken him into the Saxon Switzerland, in spite of the inclemency of the weather and her father's rebukes, had he not declared vehemently that he was happier remaining in the town.

But she did succeed in carrying him off to the fortress of Koenigstein; and there as they wandered along the fortress constructed on that wonderful rock there occurred between them a conversation which he never forgot, and which it would not have been easy to forget.

His own prospects had of course been frequently discussed.