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Updated: June 14, 2025
"I would like to see her once more," she said. Rupius pointed towards the door. Bertha opened it, went up slowly to the bed on which lay the body of the dead woman, gazed upon her friend for a long time, and kissed her on both eyes. Then a sense of unequalled restfulness stole over her.
Presently she stopped before the window of a picture-dealer's shop and immediately her eyes fell on a familiar portrait; it was the same one of Emil Lindbach as had appeared in the illustrated paper, Bertha was as delighted as if she had met an acquaintance. "I know that man," she said to Frau Rupius. "Whom?" "That man there" she pointed with her finger at the photograph "what do you think?
The sight of a young couple who passed her, pressed close to one another under an open umbrella, aroused in her a yearning for Emil. She did not resist it, for she already realized that everything within her was in such a state of upheaval that every breath brought some fresh and generally unexpected thing on to the surface of her soul. It was growing dusk when Bertha entered Herr Rupius' room.
If only there was a man in the town to whom she could talk!... And Frau Rupius was going off on her travels and leaving her husband.... Hadn't a love affair, maybe, something to do with that, Bertha wondered. The music lesson came to an end and Bertha took her leave.
In any case, she was sorry that she had called that day; a feeling of shame at being so strong and well herself came over her. "Did I tell you," continued Rupius, "that it was Anna who got these portfolios for me? It was a chance bargain, for the work is usually very expensive. A bookseller had advertised it and Anna telegraphed at once to her brother to procure it for us.
The maid laid the valise on the large table in the centre of the room, kissed her mistress's hand, and departed. "Frau Rupius!" exclaimed Bertha, a note of inquiry in her voice. "I heard that you had returned already. Well, how did you get on?" said Frau Rupius, extending her hand in a friendly way. "Very well very well indeed, but " "Why, you are gazing at me as though you were quite frightened!
She looked at the broad roadway, stretching straight from the cemetery gate to the opposite wall, and all at once she knew, for a positive fact, that in a few days a coffin, with the corpse of Frau Rupius within it, would be borne along that road.
Her emotion was such that she detected her voice to be assuming an almost tearful tone. Frau Rupius smiled, a strange, deliberate smile. "I haven't believed anything. As a matter of fact there are some things over which I do not generally ponder for long. I have no great need of friends, but you, Frau Bertha, I really and truly love." She stretched out her hand to her.
"I don't really know I daresay I could spare the time, for I have only one lesson to give tomorrow at my sister-in-law's, and she, of course, won't be too exacting; but wouldn't I be putting you to some inconvenience?" A slight shadow flitted across Frau Rupius' brow. "Putting me to inconvenience! Whatever are you dreaming of!
She thought how splendid it would be if on the occasion of her next visit she were to drive through the town, wearing her new costume and the small straw hat which made her look so young. She was glad that Frau Rupius was standing in the entrance to the station and saw her arrive.
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