`You are right,' she replied.

He laid a form before her, and she wrote the order in a clear hand, and re-read it. Suddenly a cruel smile came on her face. `I had forgotten his puppet,' said she. `They will keep each other company.' And she interlined and initiated the condemnation of Doctor Gotthold.

`Your Highness has more memory than your servant,' said the Baron; and then he, in his turn, carefully perused the fateful paper. `Good!' said he.

`You will appear in the drawing-room, Baron?' she asked.

`I thought it better,' said he, `to avoid the possibility of a public affront. Anything that shook my credit might hamper us in the immediate future.'

`You are right,' she said; and she held out her hand as to an old friend and equal.