Louise raised her eyebrows slightly.

"You are your own master, I suppose," she said. "The Baron is
used to command his policemen, and sometimes he forgets. There are
many people who find him too autocratic."

"He means well," Von Behrling asserted. "It is his manner only
which is against him."

They found a comfortable table, and she sat smiling at him across
the white cloth.

"If this is not Sachers," she said, "it is at least more pleasant
than lunching alone."

"I can assure you, Mademoiselle," he declared, with a vigorous
twirl of his moustache, "that I find it so."

"Always gallant," she murmured. "Tell me, is it true of you - the
news which I heard just before I left Vienna? Have you really
resigned your post with the Chancellor?"

"You heard that?" he asked slowly.

She hesitated for a moment.

"I heard something of the sort," she admitted. "To be quite candid
with you, I think it was reported that the Chancellor was making a
change on his own account."