Triscoe behind her with March laughing
in the gayety which the escape from her father seemed to inspire in her.
She was promising March to go with him in the morning to see the Emperor
and Empress of Germany arrive at the station, and he was warning her
that if she laughed there, like that, she would subject him to fine
and imprisonment. She pretended that she would like to see him led off
between two gendarmes, but consented to be a little careful when he
asked her how she expected to get back to her hotel without him, if such
a thing happened.

LVIII.

After all, Miss Triscoe did not go with March; she preferred to sleep.
The imperial party was to arrive at half past seven, but at six the
crowd was already dense before the station, and all along the street
leading to the Residenz. It was a brilliant day, with the promise of
sunshine, through which a chilly wind blew, for the manoeuvres. The
colors of all the German states flapped in this breeze from the poles
wreathed with evergreen which encircled the square; the workmen putting
the last touches on the bronzed allegory hurried madly to be done, and
they had, scarcely finished their labors when two troops of dragoons
rode into the place and formed before the station, and waited as
motionlessly as their horses would allow.

These animals were not so conscious as lions at the approach of princes;
they tossed and stamped impatiently in the long interval before the
Regent and his daughter-in-law came to welcome their guests. All the
human beings, both those who were in charge and those who were under
charge, were in a quiver of anxiety to play their parts well, as if
there were some heavy penalty for failure in the least point. The
policemen keeping the people, in line behind the ropes which restrained
them trembled with eagerness; the faces of some of the troopers
twitched. An involuntary sigh went up from the crowd as the Regent's
carriage appeared, heralded by outriders, and followed by other plain
carriages of Bavarian blue with liveries of blue and silver. Then the
whistle of the Kaiser's train sounded; a trumpeter advanced and began to
blow his trumpet as they do in the theatre; and exactly at the appointed
moment the Emperor and Empress came out of the station through the
brilliant human alley leading from it, mounted their carriages, with
the stage trumpeter always blowing, and whirled swiftly round half the
square and flashed into the corner toward the