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Updated: May 6, 2025
I have a communication to make to you, Frau von Sigmundskron. It will not take long. The baroness started and looked at him earnestly. 'What is it? she asked. 'You gave me a letter this morning.
As he went up the steps of the festal drinking-hall wherein the last students' feast of the year was to be celebrated, and over which he himself was to preside, three women were met together in distant Sigmundskron, repeating the service for the dead, before the smouldering embers of their poor fire, by the dim light of their one smoking candle.
'Do not forget him. He is a good friend. So at last they descended the broken stair and disappeared into the house. When Greif was ready to go, and the carriage was before the door, Frau von Sigmundskron led him away from Hilda. 'Let it be done soon, she said, earnestly. 'The marriage? asked Greif in surprise. 'No the name. Let it be changed as soon as the lawyers can do it.
'And how have you been at Sigmundskron? continued the sprightly lady. 'Do you know? It would be my dream to live at Sigmundskron! So romantic, so solitary, so deliciously poetic! It is no wonder that you look like Cinderella and the fairy godmother! I am sure they both lived at Sigmundskron and Greif will be the Prince Charmant with his Puss in Boots quite a Lohengrin in fact dear me!
Frau von Sigmundskron was too well-bred to watch his face while he read the contents. Had she looked, she would have been terrified. The note was very short, but it contained enough to shake even Rex's calm nature. 'My son, when you receive this, I shall be dead. I arrived here this evening and I have discovered that Frau von Greifenstein is your mother, my wife.
'The entertainment, so far as I am concerned, is not of a wildly exciting character, when you are talking to Fraulein von Sigmundskron, and her mother is doing needlework, and I am thrown upon my own resources. Whereas if I stay at home and read, I have the pleasure of hearing your very good description of all that I should have been entitled to see and hear had I been present myself.
Then she put out her hands and took his and drew him close to her so that she could see into his eyes. When she saw what was in them she was glad. 'Will you be a son to me, Greif von Greifenstein? she asked solemnly. 'I will indeed, so help me God, and you shall be my mother, he answered. 'Then you shall be Sigmundskron, she said. 'You are brave be as brave as old Sigmund.
'I mean to say that I now once more ask for Hilda's hand Frau von Sigmundskron laughed, and laid down her work, to look at his face. She had not expected that he would express himself in such a way. Then all at once she saw that he had meant to act in the most loyal manner possible, and she grew grave, being pleased with him as she almost always was.
She became silent and preoccupied, as they all entered the hall together and ascended the steps to the sunny sitting-room over the court. Then Frau von Sigmundskron left her alone with Greif, on pretence of taking off her mantle and smoothing her hair, but as she went away she gave him a look which signified that she would not disturb them for some time.
It seemed as though she had never before realised what she was, nor what she was able to accomplish in the world. From the day of Greif's refusal to marry her at Sigmundskron she had developed suddenly, from a simple girl into a strong and dominant woman. After Greif had left her on that day she had still felt as certain of marrying him as though they were already going to the altar.
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