Nothing can now disturb their peace.

Old Ursel, too, is longing for the end of life, and we ought not to grudge it to her.

Only I dread the last hour, and still more the long eternity which will follow it, for the good, patient woman entered the snare of the Satanic Protestant doctrine, and will not hear of taking the holy sacrament." Wolf begged him to admit him at once, but Blomberg declared that, after the attack of apoplexy which she had recently had, one thing and another might happen if she should so unexpectedly see the man to whom her whole heart clung.

Wolf would do better first to surprise the girl upstairs, who had no suspicion of his presence.

He, Blomberg, must look after the old woman now.