Otto stepped aside; it was as though he in anticipation felt the shadow which this form would one day cast across his life.
When he and Wilhelm immediately afterward returned to Sophie and Louise, he related the unpleasant impression which the girl had made upon him.
"O, that is my Meg Merrilies!" exclaimed Sophie.

"Yes, spite of her youth, do you not find that she has something of Sir Walter Scott's witch about her?
When she grows older, she will be excellent.

She has the appearance of being thirty, whereas she is said not to be more than twenty years old: she is a true giantess." "The poor thing!" said Louise; "every one judges from the exterior.

All who are around her hate her, I believe, because her eyebrows are grown together, and that is said to be a sign that she is a nightmare: [Note: This superstition of the people is mentioned in Thieles's Danish traditions: "When a girl at midnight stretches between four sticks the membrane in which the foal lies when it is born, and then creeps naked through it, she will bear her child without pains; but all the boys she conceives will become were-wolves, and all the girls nightmares.

You will know them in the daytime by their eyebrows grown together over the nose.