"Hark! What is that other sound?" asked the Baron, as a noise of
splitting and crashing was heard.
It was a tree falling in the park.
There was a moment of constrained silence, and then the banker's wife
spoke.
"It is the intense cold that is splitting the trees. It is also the cold
that has brought the wolves out in such numbers. It is many years since
we have had such a cold winter."
The Baroness eagerly agreed that the cold was responsible for these
things. It was the cold of the open window, too, which caused the heart
failure that made the doctor's ministrations unnecessary for the old
Fraulein. But the notice in the newspapers looked very well--
"On December 29th, at Schloss Cernogratz, Amalie von Cernogratz, for
many years the valued friend of Baron and Baroness Gruebel."
LOUIS
"It would be jolly to spend Easter in Vienna this year," said
Strudwarden, "and look up some of my old friends there. It's about the
jolliest place I know of to be at for Easter--"
"I thought we had made up our minds to spend Easter at Brighton,"
interrupted Lena Strudwarden, with an air of aggrieved surprise.
"You mean that you had made up your mind that we should spend Easter
there," said her husband; "we spent last Easter there, and Whitsuntide as
well, and the year before that we were at Worthing, and Brighton again
before that.
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