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`` He would wait there till the time came to attack Rupert , or , if the thing is over , he will have returned there . '' `` Then let us drive there at once , '' she urged . Bernenstein , however , persuaded her to go to the palace first and let it be known there that she was going to pay a visit to my wife . She arrived at the palace at eight o'clock , took a cup of chocolate , and then ordered her carriage . Bernenstein alone accompanied her when she set out for my house about nine . He was , by now , hardly less agitated than the queen herself . In her entire preoccupation with Mr. Rassendyll , she gave little thought to what might have happened at the hunting lodge ; but Bernenstein drew gloomy auguries from the failure of Sapt and myself to return at the proper time .