Walker-My_Musical_Ex.. - Walter Cosand

DEPPE AND SCHARWENCKA 131
to bring me again, though indirectly, en rapport with
Deppe and his school.
I lived in a pension where only ladies were received
as boarders, and the fact that there are so many of
such pensions in most German cities renders a stay
in that country most convenient and pleasant for both
young-lady students and older ladies who wish to live
abroad. Mr. Steinecke-Clarke had introduced his
wife to me the very next day, I believe, after he and I
had met at Deppe's. I had found the pair very sym-
pathetic and interesting, and they had asked me to go
and see them. I had paid them one visit ; but when
I left Deppe, and when, later on, instead of returning
to him, I had consulted Scharwencka, I did not
believe the Clarkes would care to see me again; I
therefore did not seek to renew the acquaintance,
and it was by no means agreeable to me to hear that
they were coming to spend a few weeks in the same
pension with me. Their plans were, it seems, a little
unsettled ; they were moving out of a house in which
they had lived since their marriage, and they were
undecided whether to remain in Berlin or go to
America. The ladies of the pension had known Anna
Steinecke all her life, and they told me that they were
making an exception in her favour by admitting a
gentleman. They told me it would be only for a very
short time ; but, still, I was not at all pleased at the
idea, for though I liked them both greatly, yet, know-
ing that they looked on everyone outside their school