Volume 9 / Act 5 — SCENE III
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SOPHY (alone; after him).
William! William! [Comes back.]
He is gone! And the storm is getting worse. A fog below, and the thunderstorm above coming nearer. And another one is coming on from the Brandsberg. And Ulrich outside, and none of the children at home. And I all alone in this solitary hunter's house in the midst of the forest, and at such an hour of the night!
[A door is heard slamming; she starts up.]
Merciful God! It is he! If he should look into the room and should not see Mary! Or—