'At half-past ten!'

'Well, then, you won't catch it now,' observed Gemma; 'you must stay
... and I will go on reading.'

'Have you paid the whole fare or only given a deposit?' Frau Lenore
queried.

'The whole fare!' Sanin said dolefully with a gloomy face.

Gemma looked at him, half closed her eyes, and laughed, while her
mother scolded her:

'The young gentleman has paid away his money for nothing, and you
laugh!'

'Never mind,' answered Gemma; 'it won't ruin him, and we will try and
amuse him. Will you have some lemonade?'

Sanin drank a glass of lemonade, Gemma took up Malz once more; and all
went merrily again.

The clock struck twelve. Sanin rose to take leave.

'You must stay some days now in Frankfort,' said Gemma: 'why should
you hurry away? It would be no nicer in any other town.' She paused.
'It wouldn't, really,' she added with a smile. Sanin made no reply,
and reflected that considering the emptiness of his purse, he would
have no choice about remaining in Frankfort till he got an answer from