about things, not even about my professional duties; for I have a
strong feeling that it is vulgar to be always amassing riches! As I have
neither a husband nor a brother to support, I have chosen less wealth,
and more leisure to enjoy all the loveliness of life! So you see I take
my time about everything. And to-morrow I shall catch butterflies at my
leisure, and lie among the dear old pines, and work at my great idea."

"I shall catch butterflies," said her companion; "and I too shall lie
among the dear old pines."

"Just as you please," she said; and at that moment the _table d'hote_
bell rang.

The little girl hastened to the bureau, and spoke rapidly in German to
the cashier.

"_Ach, Fraulein_!" he said. "You are not really serious?"

"Yes, I am," she said. "I don't want them to know my name. It will only
worry me. Say I am the young lady who tuned the piano."

She had scarcely given these directions and mounted to her room when
Oswald Everard, who was much interested in his mysterious companion,
came to the bureau, and asked for the name of the little lady.

"_Es ist das Fraulein welches das Piano gestimmt hat_," answered the
man, returning with unusual quickness to his account-book.

No one spoke to the little girl at _table d'hote_, but for all that she
enjoyed her dinner, and gave her serious attention to all the courses.