"Gloomy only because I could see or hear nothing of you."
"Did you know I came yesterday?"
"No. Why did you not ask to see me?"
"I was informed you were entertaining the Count Palatine."
"Ah, yes. He is a delightful old man. I like him better and better as
time goes on. My guardian and I were guests of his at Gutenfels just
before I occupied the marine prison of Pfalz."
"So your guardian told me."
They were now walking side by side in this secluded, thickly-wooded
avenue, just wide enough for two, running in a straight line from wall
to wall the whole length of the property, in the part most remote from
the house.
"Nothing disastrous has happened to you?" she asked. "I have had
miserable forebodings."
"No; I am living a most commonplace life, quite uneventful."
"But why, why does the Archbishop of Mayence delay the Election?"
"I did not know he was doing so."
"Oh, my guardian is very anxious about it. Such postponement, I
understand, never happened before. The State is without a head.
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