Barbara threw her head back proudly, and, drawing a long breath, opened the door of the house.

Outside she was received by Quijada with a silent bend of the head; but she remembered the far more profound bows with which he greeted the monarch, and, to show him of how lofty a nature was also the woman whom the Emperor Charles deemed worthy of his love, she walked with queenly dignity through the darkness at her aristocratic companion's side without vouchsafing him a single glance.
Two hours later old Ursula was sitting sleepless in her bed in the second story of the cantor house.

A slight noise was heard on the stairs, and the one-eyed maid-servant who was watching beside her exclaimed: "There it is again! just as it was striking two I said that the rats were coming up from the cellar into the house." "The rats," repeated the old woman incredulously; and then, without moving her lips, thought: "Rats that shut the door behind them?
My poor Wolf!".