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Updated: May 4, 2025
For that Ermentrude would live Christina had never hoped, since that fleeting improvement had been cut short by the fever of the wine-cup; the look, voice, and tone had become so completely the same as those of Regina Grundt's little sister who had pined and died.
"Locked up in Grundt's bedroom," she replied. "I met them pushing him along the corridor it was horrible! Grundt won't let him out of his sight. Oh, it was madness to have come. If only I could have warned you!" "What is Grundt doing here?" I asked. "And those soldiers and that officer?" "My dear," she answered, and her eyes flashed mischief in a sudden change of mood, "I'm in preventive arrest!"
I knew His Majesty's weakness for jokes at the expense of the physical deformities of others, but I had scarcely dared to hope that my subtle reference to Grundt's clubfoot as a hiding-place for compromising papers would have had such a success. For the Kaiser fairly revelled in the idea and laughed loud and long, his sides fairly shaking. "Ach, der Stelze! Excellent! Excellent!" he cried.
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