All at once he felt as if he were hovering over the Mediterranean Sea.

A swan was singing musically in his ear that this was the Mediterranean Sea.

And while he was looking down upon the waters below they became clear as crystal, so that he could see through them to the bottom.

He was delighted at this, for he could see Undine sitting beneath the crystal arch.

It is true she was weeping bitterly, and looking much sadder than in the happy days when they had lived together at the castle of Ringstetten, especially at their commencement, and afterward also, shortly before they had begun their unhappy Danube excursion.