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"You should give the poor fellow some chance and not leave him such a hard choice." Regine did not heed his remonstrance, she stood there, white to the very lips, her eyes fixed upon her son. She repeated impressively: "Decide which it shall be she or I." Willibald had grown pale, too, and an expression of deep pain lay on his face as he said gently: "That is hard, mother.
"Funny couple," Regine resumed. "Nothing to eat, no coffee, not a thing! And the missis not wanting anything to eat last night, neither!" I merely shook my head and went out. Regine called to me that coffee was nearly ready, so if I'd like a cup Of course the only thing I could do in the face of such foolishness was to shake my head and go away. One must take the sensible view.
"You speak as though the poor soul had lost her character just because she went on the stage." "So she has, so she has!" Regine answered excitedly. "Who ever enters that Sodom and Gomorrah goes down to the bottom at once and can never rise again." "That's flattering to the Court theatre company, at least," said Schönau dryly. "But we go to see them just the same." "As spectators!
But you have let your children have their own way from the very start; any one could soon tell that there was no mother in this house." "Well, was that my fault?" asked Schönau, incensed. "Perhaps, I ought to have given them a step-mother. I suggested it to you once, but you wouldn't hear of it, Regine."
"When my mother once opens her heart, then everything she does is right." "Ah, now you can flatter," said Regine with a reproving glance. "You will come to your future home at once, Marietta! As to the management of affairs, you need not bother your head about that.
"This makes the second time. First you would not have me because you had your son and your beloved Burgsdorf to look after, now you won't have me because you are not in the humor. Humors have nothing to do with marrying, only common sense; but when a woman hasn't any sense, and is too stubborn to " "You're in a very flattering mood, I must say," interrupted Regine, thoroughly aroused now.
Now his eyes met hers, his large, dark, flaming eyes which had so often looked into her own and pleaded for him in his childhood, and all doubts vanished. "Hartmut, Hartmut Falkenried! You!" She stopped suddenly, for Wallmoden laid his hand heavily, very heavily, on her arm, and said sharply: "You are in error, Regine, we do not know this gentleman."
"Do you still reprove me because I did my best to put an unclean thing out of your house? You have always been blind. You would not listen to me and now it is too late." "I believe you're gone clean mad, Regine," said Herr von Schönau solemnly. He didn't really know what to think. "Control yourself long enough to tell me what the trouble is."
Then, when the physician told him there was no hope, he dispatched old Stadinger to Fürstenstein. Frau Regine only arrived in time to see her brother die. Wallmoden never recovered consciousness after the fearful shock of his fall; he lay upon the bed silent and motionless, breathing with difficulty, and recognizing no one, and an hour later all was over.
Adelheid had left the South German capital soon after her husband's death, and had gone to her old home accompanied by her brother, who had hastened to her side as soon as he heard of the sad accident. Her short marriage had only lasted eight months and now in her twentieth year she wore the weeds of widowhood. Regine had been easily persuaded to accompany her sister-in-law.
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