The Indian Lily and Other Stories

The Indian Lily and Other Stories is a set of short stories by Hermann Sudermann. Sudermann was a German dramatist and novelist. Excerpt: «Around the hour of afternoon tea Niebeldingk, true to a dear, old habit, went to see his friend. She inhabited a small second-floor apartment in the Regentenstrasse which he had himself selected for her when she came as a stranger to Berlin. With flowers and palms and oriental rugs she had moulded a delicious retreat, and before her bed-room windows the nightingales sang in the springtime. She seemed to be expecting him. In the great, raised bay, separated from the rest of the drawing-room by a thicket of dark leaves, the stout tea-urn was already expectantly humming. In a bright, girlish dress, devoid of coquetry or pouting, Alice came to meet him. „I'm glad you're here again, Richard.“ That was all. He wanted to launch out into the tale which he had meant to tell her, but she cut him short.»