to upset my arrangements for their sakes; but he though better of it.
None of us spoke after that.
I had previously mentioned that I was staying at the Bellevue Hotel. So I knew that Minna could communicate with me, whenever she wanted to. That she would, I had now no doubt whatever. I was at rest on this point, but I was very uneasy about this strange journey of theirs. "What have they come here for?" I thought. "It is evident that they are not going to Bohemia." Why I found it "evident," I do not know.…
"The chariot rolls, the bridge is quaking,
The stream beneath it flows so sadly,
Once more the joys am I forsaking
Of that fond heart I love so madly."
As soon as we had passed the bridge, Stephensen stopped the carriage.
Then I pressed Minna's hand, bowed to Stephensen, and hurried to the railway station.
