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When Horny recounted to them the experience about which he had so long been reticent, they were walking up and down in the evening on the Sperber farm. "Why did he never tell us that before?" asked Röse, but she got no answer. "The Sperbers want us to take more notice of her," she continued; "and now it's really possible to do something with her.
"A girl like that all alone in the house!" said both the Sperbers very thoughtfully; and so it came about that they invited their nephew to come and see them. He was a good, wholesome fellow.
It was true, she had often wished that the Kirsten girls and their friends whom she met at the sewing-school and now and then at the Sperbers' would come up and see her; but then the thought came ... suppose they were to see her father as she often saw him and the desire for company went out. But Beate's loneliness had been a wonderfully strenuous loneliness.
The less severe attacks he fought through on the Ettersberg, in his old home; and it was there that his last hour found him. The Sperbers had come, and old Frau Kummerfelden also, when they heard that Herr Rauchfuss was about to depart.
About nine o'clock, when the rain was coming down in torrents, and it had been proposed that the Kirsten girls should spend the night with Beate, their three comrades and Frau Kummerfelden at the Sperbers', while the suitors would have to accustom themselves gradually to the idea of going out into the wind and wet, there came a loud ring at the gate of the courtyard.
There were two daughters of Councillor Kirsten from the Wünschengasse down in Weimar, who, with their friends Bundang, Ernst von Schiller, and Horny, came up to see the old Sperbers and made real festivities of their visits.
But all the neighbors in the country round, on the Ettersberg and behind the Ettersberg, in Weimar and the suburbs, thought as did the old Sperbers: It isn't the thing for a slip of a silly girl to be alone on the farm like that.
"Because that's foolishness," said the Sperbers' nephew. "Foolish?" said the much-courted one, laughing. "Are we then from White of Egg?" "But, my dear Mamsell," said Herr von Mengersen, "these are things ..." "And he said more ... other kinds of things," said the maid, laughing. "Be quiet!" commanded the courtier. "No, no," said the girl, "I wasn't going to say anything. That was just for us."
The girl of the Ettersberg, who had always been in the habit of taking flight when they met her by chance at the Sperbers', had long attracted them, especially since their three friends seemed to have so high an opinion of her. "Is it for her mop of red hair that you like her?" the girls asked the young men. "She has something queenly about her," said Horny.
Herr and Frau Sperber had come over to see what had become of the fugitives, and were standing at a little distance, not wishing to break in upon the sacred dance. Frau Kummerfelden, who now and then spent the week-end in summer with them for the Sperbers' hospitality was boundless had come with them. The three old people stood motionless.
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