Tell them to put the horses to; I will go to town at once.

Conceal what you have read from your mother, and you, dear Lenore, come with me." When the carriage drove up, the baron was still in the very same place where he had first read the fatal tidings.

During the journey he sat silently in a corner of the carriage.

Arrived in town, he took his daughter to his lodgings, which he had not yet given up, for fear of leading his wife or his acquaintance to suspect that his means were impaired.

He himself drove to Ehrenthal's.