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On the following Thursday Ranata was not surprised to receive a note from her father asking her to grant an audience to his minister Count von Königsegg, who went to Budapest for the purpose.
"Now for it! " exclaimed Alexandra. "Of course he's brought a corkscrew. Are your brain-cells hermetically sealed?"