It seemed strange to her that she was now herself living, as it were, in the midst of one of those fairy tales to which she had formerly only listened.
She gazed upon Undine with reverence, but she could not resist a sense of dread that seemed to come between her and her friend, and at their evening repast she could not but wonder how the knight could behave so lovingly and kindly toward a being who appeared to her, since the discovery she had just made, more of a phantom than a human being..