PART THREE

XV. IN THE SUTTNER HOUSE 191

Resolve to take a position. The Suttner family. Artur Gundaccar von Suttner. Life in the Vienna _palais_ and in Schloss Harmannsdorf. The Exposition year. Secret love. Letters from the Princess of Mingrelia. Marriage of Prince Niko. Zogelsdorf quarry. Three happy years. I tear myself away. Departure.

XVI. THE ZENITH OF HAPPINESS 207

Arrival in Paris. Alfred Nobel’s personality. Unendurable agony of separation. Two dispatches. A plan of action. Arrival at Vienna. Blissful meeting. At last and forever united.