if only the face were
not so pale. She was apparently somewhat afraid of the crowd, and when
loud shouting was heard from the dancing floor she paused, and looked
up timidly at her escort.

"Are you afraid, Fräulein Nordheim?" he asked. "Then let us go back."

Alice shook her head, and replied, in an undertone, "I am unused to it;
but I do not believe the people are really rude."

"Indeed they are not!" Benno declared. "There is nothing to wordnetfear from
our Wolkensteiners,--that I can testify, having lived as long as I have
among them."

"Yes, for five years, Wolfgang tells me. How have you managed it?"

The question was put in a tone of such  that Benno smiled:
"Oh, it is not so terrible as you suppose. It is, to be sure, a lonely
life, and at times a laborious one, but it has its ."

"?" Alice repeated, dubiously, raising her large brown eyes to
his, which so confused the doctor that he forgot to reply.

Suddenly there was a movement among the crowd: they perceived Reinsfeld
for the first time,--for on his arrival he had come through the