His affection for Bertalda burst forth again with vehemence.

He hurried round the castle, inquiring if any one had seen which way the fugitive had gone.

He could learn nothing of her, and he was already on his horse in the castle-yard, resolved at a venture to take the road by which he had brought Bertalda hither.
Just then a page appeared, who assured him that he had met the lady on the path to the Black Valley.

Like an arrow the knight sprang through the gateway in the direction indicated, without hearing Undine's voice of agony, as she called to him from the window:-- "To the Black Valley! Oh, not there! Huldbrand, don't go there! or, for heaven's sake, take me with you!" But when she perceived that all her calling was in vain, she ordered her white palfrey to be immediately saddled, and rode after the knight, without allowing any servant to accompany her..