“I did not want the Minister to know that I took the letter. That was too dangerous. I wanted to stay alive. And I like the owner of the letter. For eighteen months the Minister has been able to do what he wants with her. Now, she can do what she wants with him.
“The Minister does not know that he does not have the letter now, But he will continue to act in the same way with her. He will destroy himself. Soon, the lady will not agree to his orders. Then he will open the letter. I would like to see him when he opens it.”
“Why? Did you write something in it?”
“Of course! It was, I thought, the right thing to do. Once, in Vienna, D------ acted badly toward me. He knows that I will never forget it. He also knows my handwriting. So I wrote:
‘My dear D------,
Your trick was brave. Mine was braver.
D------.’”
