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"What is Shreckenstein?" asked Acton. "It is a great castle, the summer residence of the Reigning Prince." "Have you ever lived there?" "I have stayed there," said the Baroness. Acton was silent; he looked a while at the uncastled landscape before him. "It is the first time you have ever asked me about Silberstadt," she said.
They think they are treating me very well. Silberstadt is a perfectly despotic little state, and the Reigning Prince may annul the marriage by a stroke of his pen. But he has promised me, nevertheless, not to do so without my formal consent." "And this you have refused?" "Hitherto. It is an indignity, and I have wished at least to make it difficult for them.
He knew she had a husband there, and this was disagreeable to him; and, furthermore, it had been repeated to him that this husband wished to put her away a state of affairs to which even indirect reference was to be deprecated. It was true, nevertheless, that the Baroness herself had often alluded to Silberstadt; and Acton had often wondered why her husband wished to get rid of her.
You will see that to-morrow we shall have a splendid day." "Qu'en savez-vous? To-morrow I shall go away." "Where shall you go?" "Anywhere away from here. Back to Silberstadt. I shall write to the Reigning Prince." The young man turned a little and looked at her, with his crayon poised. "My dear Eugenia," he murmured, "were you so happy at sea?"
The fear that the Swedes inspired in the city increased when it became known that Leipzig and Pleissenburg had fallen into their hands on November 28, and that Silberstadt was their next destination. It was a fortunate circumstance that armies in those days could not move so quickly as they can now. Thanks to this fact, Freiberg had time to make all due preparation for the enemy's reception.
Acton asked him to hold the horses a service he consented to render, as a friendly turn to a fellow-citizen. Then he invited the Baroness to descend, and the two wandered away, across the grass, and sat down on the log beside the brook. "I imagine it does n't remind you of Silberstadt," said Acton. It was the first time that he had mentioned Silberstadt to her, for particular reasons.
"You will not go back to Silberstadt, eh?" asked Felix. "Not to-morrow," said the Baroness. "Nor write to the Reigning Prince?" "I shall write to him that they evidently know nothing about him over here." "He will not believe you," said the young man. "I advise you to let him alone." Felix himself continued to be in high good humor.
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