Gloria Victis!‪'‬

There is no help for it, I must do it today, the Baroness Melkweyser murmured with a sigh breathed into the depths of the toilet-glass, before which she was sitting while her maid dressed her hair. It is now just a week, she went on to herself, after having uttered the above words aloud, quite one week since Capriani entrusted the affair to me. I have met him three times and each time was obliged to tell him that there had been no favourable opportunity as yet. He is beginning to take my delay ill. Come, then, courage. Truyn certainly ought to be glad to marry his daughter as soon as possible and I cannot see why Gabrielle should make any objection to becoming the sister-in-law of the Duke of Larothiere. To be sure most Austrians have such antediluvian ideas Nons verrons I will, as Capriani desires see how the land lies.