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Updated: May 6, 2025
Perhaps the most impatient of all was Frau von Sigmundskron herself, and indeed the oldest are often those most anxious to precipitate events, as though they feared lest death should overtake them before everything is accomplished. The good baroness was by no means old, but she was in haste to see the fulfilment of her hopes.
Momentarily satisfied with himself, he once more laid his head upon the pillow, but he had hardly closed his eyes when Rex's suggestion flashed through his brain, and Hilda's clear voice seemed to cry 'Sigmundskron! in his ears. The thought of bearing another name, of being no longer Greifenstein, of being the father of a new race in a new home, presented itself to him in all its attractions.
'The whole scandal would be revived my name would appear, it would be a fresh injury to Greif. And my wife knows nothing of it. She would hear it all. 'Does she know nothing? asked Frau von Sigmundskron, looking curiously at her cousin. 'Not a word. She never heard his name. 'I could not help supposing that she left us just now because she was disturbed at the news and she has not come back.
Only when all was over, Greif made a great feast for all the men of the Greifenstein estates, and another in the court of Sigmundskron for the people of the tiny village. And it was to Sigmundskron that Hilda and Greif went first, while Rex and the baroness remained together at Greifenstein.
'I will, said Rex, and he did so on the first occasion that offered. He and Greif went over to Sigmundskron together. Indeed, Rex went for the express purpose of making his speech to Hilda, and Greif occupied the attention of the baroness for a while in order that the two might talk undisturbed. 'So you have come at last, said Hilda. 'It is long since we have seen you.
The baroness held views of this sort concerning Hilda and old Berbel. It was characteristic of her that, as soon as her generosity had got the better of her hesitation in regard to the marriage, she began to consider Greif in the light of a well-beloved adversary, whom the feminine powers of Sigmundskron must vanquish for his own good.
Hilda looked at the banner curiously, and then at her mother. 'We must make a new one, Hilda, she said. 'And Wastei must pick out a tall, straight sapling from the forest for Sigmundskron has a lord again, and the old flag must float on the wind when he comes to his home. Rex had not been wrong when he predicted that Hilda and Greif would be married in the summer.
and also upon that of her high and well-born consort and husband, the lord of Sigmundskron. The name burst from his lips like a clap of thunder, and Greif grew grave, for it meant something to him. 'And though I could say much more, continued the mayor, 'I will not, for silence is gold, as the burgomaster of Kalw says.
If Frau von Sigmundskron should be the first to find it out, it was impossible to foretell what might happen.
As Rieseneck and Greifenstein had been half-brothers, so were Greif and Rex; as their fathers had loved one woman, so they also both loved Hilda; as the elder pair might have been, but for the woman who wrought their destruction, honourable, brave and earnest men, so were their sons in reality the difference lay not so much between the fathers and the sons, as between one woman and the other, between Clara Kurtz and Hilda von Sigmundskron.
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