"I am glad it has all ended so satisfactorily, and that you are back again," he went on.

" Come, what do they say about the new act I have got passed in the council?" Anna had heard nothing of this act, And she felt conscience-stricken at having been able so readily to forget what was to him of such importance.

"Here, on the other hand, it has made a great sensation," he said, with a complacent smile.