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"When will she come?" she asked at last.
"As soon as you will allow her—tomorrow. She is very impatient," answered Felix, who wished to be agreeable.
"To-morrow, yes," said Gertrude. She wished to ask more about her; but she hardly knew what could be predicated of a Baroness Münster. "Is she—is she—married?"
Felix had finished his cake and wine; he got up, fixing upon the young girl his bright, expressive eyes. "She is married to a German prince—Prince Adolf, of Silberstadt-Schreckenstein. He is not the Reigning Prince; he is a younger brother."
Gertrude gazed at her informant; her
