'And if they won't let you?'

'They will let me!'

'Listen ... Don't say _there_ that I asked you to come for the whole
day.'

'Why should I? But I'll get away all the same! What does it matter?'

Emil warmly kissed Sanin, and ran away.

Sanin walked up and down the room a long while, and went late to bed.
He gave himself up to the same delicate and sweet sensations, the same
joyous thrill at facing a new life. Sanin was very glad that the idea
had occurred to him to invite Emil to spend the next day with him; he
was like his sister. 'He will recall her,' was his thought.

But most of all, he marvelled how he could have been yesterday other
than he was to-day. It seemed to him that he had loved Gemma for all
time; and that he had loved her just as he loved her to-day.




XXVI


At eight o'clock next morning, Emil arrived at Sanin's hotel leading
Tartaglia by a string. Had he sprung of German parentage, he could