Collected works > Edinburgh edition, 1894-98 - Works of Robert Louis Stevenson > Volume 9, 1895 - Romances Volume II

CHAPTER III
PROVIDENCE VON ROSEN : ACT THE LAST
IN WHICH SHE GALLOPS OFF
When the busy Countess came forth from her inter-
view with Seraphina, it is not too much to say that
she was beginning to be terribly afraid. She paused
in the corridor and reckoned up her doings with an
eye to Gondremark. The fan was in requisition in
an instant ; but her disquiet was beyond the reach
of fanning. ' The girl has lost her head,' she thought;
and then dismally, ' I have gone too far.' She in-
stantly decided on secession. Now the Mons Sacer
of the Frau von Rosen was a certain rustic villa in
the forest, called by herself, in a smart attack of
poesy, Tannen Zauber, and by everybody else plain
Kleinbrunn.
Thither, upon the thought, she furiously drove,
passing Gondremark at the entrance to the Palace
avenue, but feigning not to observe him ; and as
Kleinbrunn was seven good miles away, and in the
bottom of a narrow dell, she passed the night with-
out any rumour of the outbreak reaching her ; and
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