"Don't interfere with my show, please," he had said, and proceeded to inquire about a piano to be sent in for the week.

Then he turned to his friend again.

"Oh, we are going to enjoy ourselves," he said, with an irresistible sincerity.
Tristan und Isolde was given on the third day of their stay there, and Falbe, reading the morning German paper, found news.
"The Kaiser has arrived," he said.

"There's a truce in the army manoeuvres for a couple of days, and he has come to be present at Tristan this evening.

He's travelled three hundred miles to get here, and will go back to-morrow.