The fisherman and the knight had been accustomed at their mid-day meal, and also in the evening when the wind roared without, as it was always wont to do toward night, to enjoy together a flask of wine.

But now the store which the fisherman had from time to time brought with him from the town, was exhausted, and the two men were quite out of humor in consequence.
Undine laughed at them excessively all day, but they were neither of them merry enough to join in her jests as usual.

Toward evening she went out of the cottage to avoid, as she said, two such long and tiresome faces.

As twilight advanced, there were again tokens of a storm, and the water rushed and roared.

Full of alarm, the knight and the fisherman sprang to the door, to bring home the girl, remembering the anxiety of that night when Huldbrand had first come to the cottage.