re, and think, and remember, that it's
all over--that this is the end--that we shall never, never be here in
this little room again! Oh, I couldn't bear it!--! can't bear it,
Maurice! Let us go away--please, let us go!"

In vain he urged reason; there was no gainsaying her: she brushed
aside, without listening to it, his objection that their rooms in
Leipzig would not be ready for them. Throwing back the bedclothes, she
got up at once and dressed herself, with cold fingers, then flung
herself upon the packing, helped and hindered by Amalie, who wept
beside her. The hour that followed was like a bad dream. Finally,
however, the luggage was carried downstairs, the bill paid, and the
circumstantial good-byes were said: they set off, at full speed, down
the woodpath to the station, to catch the midday train. Louise was
white with exhaustion: her breath came sobbingly. In a firstclass
carriage, he made her lie down on the seat. With her hand in his, he
said what he could to comfort her; for her face was tragic.

"We will come again, darling. It is only AUF WIEDERSEHEN, remember!"

But she shook her head.

"We shall never be here again."

Leipzig, at three o'clock on an August afternoon, lay baking in the
sun. He put her in a covered droschke, himself carrying the bags, for
he could not find a porter.

"At seven, then! Try to sleep. You are so pale."

"Good-bye--good-bye!"

His hand rested on the door of the droschke. She laid hers on it, and
clung to it as though she would never, let it go.

Part III.

... dove il Sol tace.

DANTE

I.

Frau Krause was ill pleased at his unlooked-for reappearance, and did
not scruple to say so. From the condition of disorder in which he found
his room, Maurice judged that it had been occupied, during his absence,
by the entire family. Having been caught napping, Frau Krause carried
the matter off with a high hand: she gave him to understand that his
behaviour in descending upon her thus, was not that of a decent lodger.
Maurice never parleyed with her; ascertaining by a glance that his
books and music had been left untouched, he made his escape from the
pails of water that were straightway brought into evidence, as well as
from her irate assurances that the room would be ready for him in a
quarter of an hour.

He went into the town, and did various small errands necessary to the
taking up anew of the old life. After he had had dinner, and had looked
t