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.