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Story: CHAPTER IV 

After leaving Mrs. Wagner, the widow considered with herself, and then turned away from the commercial regions of the house, in search of her daughter. 

She opened the dining-room door, and found the bagatelle-board on the table. Fritz and Minna were playing a game of the desultory sort--with the inevitable interruptions appropriate to courtship. 

"Are you coming to join us, mamma? Fritz is playing very badly." 

"This sort of thing requires mathematical calculation," Fritz remarked; "and Minna distracts my attention." 

Madame Fontaine listened with a smile of maternal indulgence. "I am on my way back to my room," she said. "If either of you happen to see Jack Straw----" 

"He has gone out," Fritz interposed. "I saw him through the window. He started at a run--and then remembered his dignity, and slackened his pace to a walk. How will he come back, I wonder?" 

"He will come back with greater dignity than ever, Fritz. I have given him the money to buy himself a pair of gloves. If you or Minna happen to meet with him before I do, tell him he may come upstairs and show me his new gloves. I like to indulge the poor imbecile creature. You mustn't laugh at him--he is to be pitied." 

Expressing these humane sentiments, she left the lovers to their game. While Jack was still pleasurably excited by the new gift, he would be in the right frame of mind to feel her influence. Now or never (if the thing could be done) was the time to provide against the danger of chance-allusions to what had happened at Wurzburg. It was well known in the house that Mrs. Wagner wished to return to London, as soon after the marriage as certain important considerations connected with the management of the office would permit. By Madame Fontaine's calculations, Jack would be happily out of the way of doing mischief (if she could keep him quiet in the meanwhile) in a month or six weeks' time. 

Question: Did the widow have a child?
Answer:Yes

Question: Son or daughter?
Answer:Daughter

Question: Where was she looking for her daughter?
Answer:In a house

Question: Who was listening?
Answer:Madame Fontaine

Question: What expression did she have?
Answer:A smile

Question: Of what sort of indulgence?
Answer:Maternal

Question: Who spied someone through a window?
Answer:Fritz

Question: What door did Wagner open?
Answer:Dining-room

Question: What did she find?
Answer:Bagatelle-board

Question: Where?
Answer:On the table.

Question: Who said someone distracted their attention?
Answer:Minna

Question: How many people were playing a game?
Answer:Two

Question: Who?
Answer:Fritz and Minna

Question: A game of what kind?
Answer:Desultory sort

Question: Where was Fontaine on her way back to?
Answer:Her room

Question: Who did she ask about them possibly seeing?
Answer:Jack Straw

Question: What had she given him?
Answer:Money

Question: For what purpose?
Answer:To buy a pair of gloves

Question: Did she say Jack was to be pitied?
Answer:Yes

Question: How long would Jack be out of the way?
Answer:
A month or six weeks' time