The archduke had been much shaken by his terrors and disappointments of the morning.

Count Zerbst had acquired a deep respect for the intelligence of the young friends of the princess; and he had learned from Mrs.Dangerfield, who had discussed the matter with Sir Maurice, that since her stay at the knoll was doing the princess good, and was certainly better for her than life with the crimson baroness at the Grange, she was not going to annoy and discourage her charitable offspring by interfering in their good work for trivial social reasons.

The baroness was bitterly angry at their failure to recover her lost charge.
They discussed the further measures to be taken, the archduke and the baroness with asperity, Count Zerbst gloomily.

He made no secret of the fact that he believed that, if he dressed for the chase and took to the woods, he would in the end find and capture the princess, but it might take a week or ten days.

The archduke cried shame upon a strategist of his ability that he should be baffled by children for a week or ten days.