So Loneli put two and two together, and having made these observations, was filled with sudden wrath.
As soon as school was ended, she rushed to the astonished Clevi: "Oh, I know what you have done, Clevi.

Kurt was your leader and you didn't obey him; you all ran away because you were afraid.

Oh, you have spoiled it all for him." "Yes, and what about him?
He was afraid himself," Clevi cried out excitedly, for the reproach had stung her.

"I could see with what terrified bounds he flew down the mountain-side." "Was he afraid, too, do you really mean?
But of what ?" Loneli questioned further.
"Of what?
That is easily said: of what! You ought to have seen that huge creature coming towards us from the castle." Since it had come out that they had been so frightened, Clevi now told in detail about the horribly tall armoured knight with the high boots and the long cloak hanging down to his boot-tops.
"Was the mantle blue ?" Loneli, who had been listening intensely, interrupted.
"It was night-time, and you can imagine we did not see the color clearly," Clevi said indignantly.

"But the color has nothing to do with it, it was the length, the horrible, horrible length of that thing! It looked just too awful.