I shall
demand my release."
"I am afraid," Mr. Sabin said, "that Saxe Leinitzer has other reasons
for keeping you at Dorset House."
She shrugged her shoulders.
"He has been very persistent even before I left Vienna. But he must
know that it is hopeless. I have never encouraged him."
"I am sure of it," Mr. Sabin said. "It is the incorrigible vanity
of the man which will not be denied. He has been taught to believe
himself irresistible. I have never doubted you for a single moment,
Lucille. I could not. But you have been the slave of these people
long enough. As you say, your task is over. Its failure was always
certain. Brott believes in his destiny, and it will be no slight
thing which will keep him from following it. They must give you
back to me."
"We will go back to America," she said. "I have never been so
happy as at Lenox."
"Nor I," Mr. Sahin said softly.
"Besides," she continued, "the times have changed since I joined
the Society. In Hungary you know how things were. The Socialists
were carrying all before them, a united solid body. The aristocracy
were forced to enter into some sort of combination against them.
We saved Austria, I am not sure that we did not save Russia. But
England is different. The aristocracy here are a strong resident
class.
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