I dreaded the hour before, but, after what you have told me, I fear now either that he does not know all, or," added he, in a low murmur, "that he will not tell me all.

You yourself must go to the baron." "You must not forget, Bernhard," replied Anton, "that, even with the best will in the world, it is not permitted us to force ourselves thus into the affairs of others.

However good our intentions may be, still I am a stranger to the baron.

My interference may seem, both to him and to your father, sheer presumption.

I do not say that the step is a useless, but it is a most uncertain one.